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[ZESTCaste] 08/10/10-Each time the BSP Government was formed in Uttar Pradesh important and far-reaching decisions were taken, according the highest priority to education. Of these, some major achievements are listed

08/10/10-Each time the BSP Government was formed in Uttar Pradesh important and far-reaching decisions were taken, according the highest priority to education. Of these, some major achievements are listed

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Ms.Mayawati

Hon'ble Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh

Each time the BSP Government was formed in Uttar Pradesh important and far-reaching decisions were taken, according the highest priority to education. Of these, some major achievements are listed below:

· Target fixed from the very first term of BSP government, to saturate Ambedkar Grams, each with a primary school under Dr.Ambedkar Gram Yojana.

· 7003 new primary and 2217 upper primary schools established in unserved areas.

· Reconstruction of 3858 decrepit school buildings.

· Schools provided with minimum basic facilities like construction/reconstruction of buildings, additional class-rooms, hand pumps, electricity, toilets etc.

· Process for recruitment of teachers against 88.000 vacancies started. 60,000 teachers recruited, so far.

· 43200 Shiksha Mitras appointed in primary schools to improve the student-teacher ratio.

· 9188 Vidya Kendras and alternative educational centres opened under Education Guarantee Centre and Alternative/Navachar Shiksha scheme.

· Strengthening of 666 pre-secondary education centres.

· To encourage girl education at class 6-8level and to empower girls, 'Meena Manch' programme inaugurated with 700 'manchs' established already.

· Teaching of English in primary schools introduced from class 1, instead of class 3 in order that the children gained knowledge of English from the very beginning.

· All students from class 1-5 and girl students, including SC/ST, from class 6-8 given text books, free of charge.

· In addition to payment od salaries of teachers of 577 privately-managed primary schools in 52 districts, provision made to give scholarships to 2,28,160 students with no contribution from the Government of India.

· 454 Kasturiba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas function to provide residential education from class 6 to 8 to drop-out girls belonging to poorer sections. Construction of 155 such school-buildings completed.

· Construction of new buildings propo0sed during 2010-11 with provision for 40830 poor girl students, to have free education, boarding, uniforms, school-books and residential-education facilities. Of these girl students, 42% shall be from SC/ST and 36% from pther backward classes.

· Upgradation of 254 government high schools to the secondary level in the last three years.

· Construction of 54 government higher secondary schools in the last three years, which had no buildings of their own.

· Additional classrooms and laboratories constructed in 97 government higher secondary schools in the last 2years.

· Establishment of Rama Bai Ambedka Government Girls Inter College at Chhibramau (Farrukhabad) & Kota (Saharanpur).

· Two Mahamaya Colleges, one each for boys and girls, established in Noida and Greater Noida together with hostels.

· Financial assistance of Rs.10 lakh for construction of the building of Dr.Ambedkar Inter College, Unchahaar, Rae Bareli.

· Rs.5 lakh financial assistance for improvement of Dr.Ambedkar hostel, Gokulpura, Agra.

· 66 ashram-style schools being run with a capacity to cater to 28065 students, girls and boys, and another 22 new ashram-style schools with 10560-capacity, granted unprecedented increase in funds to meet the expenses of boarding, school books and uniforms for children of families belonging to SC/ST/backward classes and those living below the poverty line to enable them pursue education from classes 1 to intermediate.

· Ashram style schools being run for S/C students, specially those belonging to the Balmiki community.

· To bring boys and girls belonging to the poorer sections into the mainstream of education, Govt.Open Schools Council, U.P., Allahabad for purpose of distance education.

· Savitri Bai Phule Balika Siksha Madad Yojna started from 15 January 2009 to encourage girl students of BPL families to take to education, benefitting 86,686 girls in 2008-90 and 1,70,527 in 2009-10.

· Order issued for reservation of admission of women, up to a maximum of 20 percent seats in educational institutions under each syllabus.

· IAS coaching institute established for SC/ST at Bhagidari Bhavan, Lucknow as well as Agra and Aligarh, besides an institute for both IAS and PCS coaching at Barelly.

· Kanshiram Research Chair set up in 6 universities in the state.

· Dr.Ambedkar coaching centre established at Agra.

· Decision to increase the number of available seats in universitie3s by 20%. Vice-chancellors also authorized to increase seats by 5%, if needed.

· Government degree colleges established in 13 unserved districts.

· To promote Urdu, Arabic and Persian languages in the state, an Urdu, Arabic and Persian university established at Lucknow.

· Decision to establish a second Technical University in Greater Noida , to be named as Mahamaya Technical University.

· Establishment of Gautam Buddha University in Greater Noida at a cost of Rs.300 crore.

· The first in the country, Gautam Buddha University (Noida) with general reservation , to provide to its students, belonging to SC/ST, other backward classes, religious minorities and the general BPL category, facilities of higher studies, at government expense, in the foreign universities, specially Denmark University.

· Construction of Dr.Ambedkar hostels for SC/ST at Amroha and Moradabad.

· Construction of hostels for girl and boy students belonging to S/T at Mau, Karvi, Naraini, Orai, Azamgarh, Kalpi, Maharajganj and Badaun and construction of another 53 new hostels approved with instructions to remove unauthorized occupation from them.

· Pioneering decision to provide 100% scholarships to all SC/ST students upto class VII level. Decision to reimburse scholarships for the whole year in the beginning of the session itself, for which an additional provision of Rs.111 crore made. The number of beneficiaries increases from 36 lakh to 72 lakh.

· Scholarship of minority students doubled, immediately after Ms.Mayawati formed the government, the second time.

· The rate of scholarships for backward–class students doubled.Government of India requested to reimburse the amount of the fees of such students.

· Plan to benefit as many as 87,23,000 students of S/C and denotified tribes under the scholarship distribution scheme.

· As many as 4,18,46,296 students from class 1 to 10, belonging to SC/ST and general categories given scholarships worth Rs.1641,09 crore during the last 3 years, without any contribution from the government of India.

· Scholarships to high school-pass students pursuing higher studies being paid at government of India approved rates since 2002-03.

· During the last 3years scholarships, worth Rs.1030.59 crore, provided to 20,86,952 SC/ST students studying in post-matric classes in which the Government of India contribution was a mere Rs.30.67 crore.

· Arrangement for direct transfer of scholarship of all pre and post-high school students, girls and boys, to their personal bank accounts through computerization.

· For extension of higher education and improving it qualitatively, 12 state universities, 1 open university, 1 deemed university, 6 private universities, 138 government degree colleges, 335 aided non-government degree colleges and more than 2800 self-financed degree colleges functioning in the state.

· Scholarships arranged from Dr.Ambedkar Birth Centenary Foundation Fund for 100 students each of SC/ST, scoring the highest marks in the examination conducted by the UP Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Allahabad. For the next course of study, provision of a 10-month scholarship of Rs.250 per month, annually Rs.2500, for the highest scorer of marks in high school and Rs.350 per month, annually Rs.350 in intermediate examination.

· Scholarships for SC/ST students, from classes 1 to 10, doubled.

· For eligibility to scholarship of students upto class 10, the monthly ceiling on income of their guardians raised from Rs.1000 to Rs.2500.

· Decision taken to provide scholarships at double the nominal rate to children of families engaged in scavenging.

· Establishment of Dr.Shakuntala Misra Rehabilitation University at Lucknoe to provide quality education, for the first time in the country, to the different categories of the physically challenged.

· For the visually impaired, a boys' inter college opened at Meerut and a girls' inter college, each at Lucknow and Gorakhpur.

· Proper arrangements made, saturating 388 development blocks for educat6ion of disabled children.

· Childhood day-care centres being run in the districts of Lucknow, Jhansi, Allahabad, Varanasi, Agra, Saharanpur, Bareilly and Gautam Buddha Nagar to equip physically challenged children in the age group 3-7 with pre-school readiness.

· First time, an inter college for visually impaired girls opened at Lucknow.

· A Talking-Book Studio established in Lucknow district for visually impaired students.

· A shelter-home-cum-training centre established for mentally retarded children, each in Bareilly, Meerut and Gorakhpur districts.

· A scholarship scheme for minority students introduced, for the first time in the country, by Chief Minister Ms. Mayawati during her very first tenure.

· UP Madarsa Education Board constituted for the first time in the state. As many as 169 Madarsas accorded recognition in the last one year.

· After years, 100 new Madarsas with permanent recognition included in grant-in-aid list.

· Action revived, through proper affidavit, against restriction on recruitment of Urdu teachers, paving the way for recruiting 5000 Urdu teachers.

· The manual for registration of Madrsas amended, doing away with the condition of three years' prior registration.

· As many as 964 primary and 1,212 upper primary schools established, which include 10 new schools for girls in Muslim dominated areas.

· Decision to open 58 government secondary schools in Muslim dominated areas of 22 districts in the state.

· Computer literacy programme introduced in 50 Madrsas.

· Provision of scholarships for minority students (boys and girls) upto class 10.

· Decision to increase the income- limit of eligibility to scholarship for minority students, from Rs.18,800 to 1,00,000 per year.

Revolutionary changes in the interest of the U.P. Board Examinees

· An examinee, clearing five out of the six subjects will be deemed successful.

· An examinee failing in Arithmetic, Science or Social Science but having passed the sixth subject will be deemed successful.

· Each subject to have one question paper only.

· Thus, the examination in 6 subjects of each group to complete in six days.

· Facility of compartmental examination if the examinee fails in two subjects.

· Compartmental examination to be held in the month of July.

· There shall be no mention of compartmental examination in the mark sheet.

· The system of showing division in the mark sheet dispensed with.

· Mark sheet will show only marks obtained, subject –wise.

· Grade to be in place of division in the mark sheet.

· The examinee will not have to reappear the next year for examination in subjects passed already.

· Examinees failing for 3 years in all subjects can appear for examination as private candidates only.

"May all be educated, may all develop, may Baba Saheb Dr.Ambedkar's dream come true, That's the task of this committed Government, which it is determined to see through"

MAY YOU BE EVER HAPPY, WELL AND SECURE
MAY YOU LIVE LONG
MAY ALL SENTIENT AND NON-SENTIENT BEINGS BE EVER HAPPY
MAY YOU BE ALWAYS HAVE CALM, QUIET, ALERT,ATTENTIVE AND
EQUANIMITY MIND WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT
NOTHING IS PERMANENT

[ZESTCaste] 'Atrocity' case quashed

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubli/Atrocity-case-quashed/articleshow/6283525.cms

'Atrocity' case quashed
TNN, Aug 9, 2010, 09.54pm IST

BELGAUM: The high court circuit Bench of Dharwad has quashed the
criminal case filed by the police department against two Belgaum
journalists under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, saying "there
is no question of atrocity arising in accident cases".

Marihal police had registered an atrocity case against journalists
Vilas Joshi and Ramesh Hiremath on June 9, 2009. In the chargesheet,
it was mentioned that the duo had "allegedly" assaulted a truck driver
belonging to Scheduled Caste and abused him in filthy language. This,
they did, after the truck driver "allegedly" hit their car in Belgaum
(North) traffic police station limits.

Dismissing the case, Justice Huluvadi G Ramesh said journalists "were
purposefully implicated in the case by the police department". As
there was no old relation or individual identification between the
complainant and the journalists, no question of atrocity exists here,
he added. The court also took the police department to task for
building a "false case" against the journalists.

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[ZESTCaste] Equal Opportunity Commission likely to be set up

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/equal-opportunity-commission-likely-to-be-set-up/104458/on

Equal Opportunity Commission likely to be set up

Press Trust of India / New Delhi August 09, 2010, 16:37 IST

The government is mulling setting up the Equal Opportunity Commission
as recommended by the Sachar Committee in its report on social,
economic and educational status of Muslims, the Rajya Sabha was
informed today.

The committee had recommended setting up of such a commission to look
into the grievances of the deprived groups, Minority Affairs Minister
Salman Khurshid said during Question Hour.

He said as per a recent decision taken by his ministry, MPs and MLAs
could attend meetings of the 15-point committee for the welfare of
minorities.

Khurshid said the government has identified 90 minority concentration
districts (MCDs) on the basis of substantial minority population and
relative backwardness based on data of 2001 census.

He said the recommendations of the Ranganath Misra Commission were
under consideration. The commission had recommended 15 per cent
reservation for Muslims in education and employment and also suggested
inclusion of Muslim and Christian Dalits in SC List.

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[ZESTCaste] BSP `misusing'' Ambedkar''s name for political gains, says BJP

http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/bsp-misusing-ambedkars-name-for-political-gains-says-bjp/217831.html

BSP `misusing'' Ambedkar''s name for political gains, says BJP
PTI
Indore, Aug 9 (PTI) BJP today criticised the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
for "misusing" the name of B R Ambedkar for political gains and
stressed it will present the nationalist face of the Dalit icon before
the people."BSP has misused the name of Ambedkar to increase its vote
bank and presented before them only one side of his multi -faceted
personality. Ambedkar was a patriot and BJP will now highlight his
nationalist face among the people," BJP's Anusuchit Jati (SC) Morcha
President Dushyant Kumar Gautam told reporters here.Gautam dismissed
suggestions that in order to spread its base among the Dalits, the
saffron outfit is trying to encash the image of Ambedkar. BJP has
always honoured the "champion of Dalits", he said.He said the Ambedkar
memorial situated at Mhow near here was completed during the BJP's
rule, while it was in dilapidated state during the Congress
Government.Even the house in Delhi where the architect of Indian
Constitution breathed his last was converted into a memorial during
BJP-led NDA Government's regime, Gautam said.He also highlighted that
Ambedkar was conferred `Bharat Ratna', after a long wait of 34 years
after his demise, in the year 1990 when a non-Congress Government was
in power at the Centre.

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Monday, August 9, 2010

[ZESTCaste] India’s low-caste still “untouchables”

http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-08-09/india-untouchables-dalits-discrimination.html

India's low-caste still "untouchables"

permalinke-mail story to a friendprint versionPublished 09 August, 2010, 07:22

In the traditional Hindu society, caste prejudice is illegal but it is
still an issue for many, especially when it comes to the "ritually
impured."

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Propeller The so-called Dalits, or "untouchables," are not allowed to
get involved with the upper caste in any way.

It is a problem that's been simmering, but now Soni Devi says it's
fast reaching the boiling point. She is a newly-appointed cook in this
primary school in Jaanipur. She is there to prepare the
government-funded midday meal.

But despite Soni's best intentions, some of the students turn their
noses up at her culinary creations, because she is a Dalit. In
traditional Hindu society, only upper-caste cooks are allowed to cook
community meals.

"Some upper-caste children don't want to eat food made by me," she
said. "Their parents consider the food polluted by my touch. What can
I do? I'm here to make lunch in this school. I treat the children here
just like my own kids."

120 million children across India receive a mid-day meal every working
day, in the largest school lunch program in the world. But when the
Education Ministry decided to send Dalit cooks to village schools,
where the majority of pupils are upper-caste Hindus, many found that
too hard to swallow.

"The mid-day meal can entice poor parents to send their children to
school. The kids look forward to it. But there are some parents who
don't want their children to eat food made by low-caste people and
have removed their children from here, and also threatened us as
well," said school principal Ram Kumar Pathak.

Meet the Singh family, a member of the upper caste Rajput community.
They refused to allow their 10-year old son Parmanand to continue
studying in a school which they felt didn't respect their customs, and
pulled him out immediately.

"We are upper caste. We believe strongly in the caste system. We
cannot eat food made or touched by somebody from a lower caste. That's
why we moved our child from this government school and put him into a
private one," Parmanand's mother Gita Devi explained.

Activists say this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in
eradicating the caste system. Discrimination on the basis of caste is
illegal in India, but the practice is still entrenched in rural areas,
where the kind of work you do, and who you can eat with, is largely
divided along caste lines.

"We low-caste people are treated like dirt," said low-cast villager
Umi Devi. "The upper castes order us about, they tell us, 'Stay on one
side, wash the utensils, sit there'-- anything to humiliate us. They
want us to remain low and never rise up."

As for the government, it is most willing to bridge social divisions
and says legal action will be taken against villagers who oppose Dalit
cooks in schools.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

[ZESTCaste] 08/10/10-Each time the BSP Government was formed in Uttar Pradesh important and far-reaching decisions were taken, according the highest priority to education. Of these, some major achievements are listed

[ZESTCaste] 'Atrocity' case quashed

[ZESTCaste] Equal Opportunity Commission likely to be set up

[ZESTCaste] BSP `misusing'' Ambedkar''s name for political gains, says BJP

Monday, August 9, 2010

[ZESTCaste] India’s low-caste still “untouchables”

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