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Thursday, December 16, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Illiterate brings out a book on Ambedkar - Ambedkar Award proposal

Dear friends,
Please read this wonderful news. Who deserves recognition than poet Ramanna Byati of Karnataka who is an illiterate?
 
You all know that, in the past we honored Dr Endluri Chinnaiah (author and an eminent personality in Ambedkarite circles in Hyderabad) and Ms Baby Kamble of Maharashtra (author of 'The Prisons We Broke') with Ambedkar Awards from our organization. I feel it is an honor to felicitate Mr Ramanna as well.
 
So, I am proposing Ambedkar Award for 2011 to Mr Ramanna.  FFEI can donate Rs. 10,000 from its corpus funds. If others contribute, it would be great and the amount can be presented to him in a small function.
 
But, before, is there anyone in Karnataka to trace him and start a dialogue? I started my search already. If anyone knows him, please come forward.
 
Please read the news and respond.
Thanks
Ben
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Illiterate brings out a book on Ambedkar Posted by: "Siddhartha Kumar" mailsiddhartha.k@gmail.com   tellsiddhartha Wed Dec 15, 2010 4:30 am (PST) http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/city/ hubli/Illiterate -brings-out- a-book-on- Ambedkar/ articleshow/ 7095286.cms

Illiterate brings out a book on Ambedkar
TNN, Dec 13, 2010, 10.45pm IST

HUBLI: KPCC president G Parameshwara on Monday released the life
history of the architect of Indian constitution, B R Ambedkar, written
in the form of an epic by illiterate poet Ramanna Byati at Thontadarya
Kalyana Mantap in Gadag.

The epic, written in Bhamini Shatpadi (six-line verse) contains 36
chapters in 514 pages. In his work, Byati has described Ambedkar's
childhood, his family background, struggle for social justice, and his
role in drafting the  constitution. He has taken the help of his
daughter Sunanda in scripting it.

Speaking after releasing the book, Parameshwara and district minister
C C Patil praised Byati, saying it's a big achievement by an
illiterate weaver.

 
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[ZESTCaste] Mayawati calls for ban on ‘made snana’

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/119964/mayawati-calls-ban-made-snana.html

Mayawati calls for ban on 'made snana'

Lucknow, Dec 12, DHNS:

Condemning a ritual in Karnataka involving people from scheduled
castes, UP Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on
Saturday demanded that it should be banned forthwith.

The ritual called 'made snana' has lower caste people being asked to
roll over plantain leaves containing food scraps. "It is inhuman,
humiliating and derogatory and therefore it should be banned
immediately by the Karnataka government," Mayawati said.

"It is unbelievable that such rituals are still continuing in the 21st
century. It shows that the people with casteist mindset do not bother
about the dignity of the scheduled caste people," the BSP chief said.

The 'made snana' ritual was observed at a temple in Karnataka on
Friday. It is believed that the ritual cures ailments.

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[ZESTCaste] Government leaves SC/ST students in lurch

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_government-leaves-sc-st-students-in-lurch_1481784

Government leaves SC/ST students in lurch

Published: Thursday, Dec 16, 2010, 1:57 IST
By Rosy Sequeira | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

In a case relating to the ill-treatment of students from backward
classes by private aided schools because the state has stopped
reimbursing them, the Bombay high court was informed on Wednesday that
the payments have been halted as it was found that the schools are
fleecing the exchequer by submitting exorbitant bills. There are 1.15
lakh such students in the city.

A division bench was hearing a petition filed by Naresh Gosavi and
other parents stating that since the government has failed to release
grants under the free education scheme, the schools are not permitting
children to attend classes.

An affidavit filed by Uttam Lonare, deputy director of the social
welfare department (SWD), states that bills submitted by schools in
Mumbai are inordinately higher than those of the rest 33 districts in
the state.

A financial irregularity was noticed wherein Rs45 crore was released
by some officials without the mandatory sanction of the social justice
department (SJD), the affidavit states. An inquiry against these
officers is in progress.

Following the irregularity, the secretary of the SJD, on April 4 last
year, instructed that the government will not sanction reimbursement
of higher fees.

Lonare in his affidavit said a committee of four secretaries was
formed in February, which will take the final decision.

Lonare also stated that the education officer, Greater Mumbai, has
directed school managements that no student can be stopped from
attending school. He concluded that the government takes
responsibility of reimbursing fees of schools which charge as per the
laid down fee structure, but is not liable to pay higher fees.

Government pleader D Nalawade argued that after the irregularity was
noticed in 2009, the figures for Greater Mumbai have come down to
Rs16.17 lakh, from Rs670 lakh the year before. "We don't want schools
to profiteer while students in the rest of Maharashtra are deprived,''
he said.

The petitioners' advocate, Gayatri Singh, countered Nalawade's
argument by saying, "This [enquiry] is nothing but victimisation of
lower rank officers because the bills were sanctioned by senior
officers from the SWD in accordance with government resolution of
1976, by which the government is required to reimburse education
expenses of backward category students.

"These reimbursements were suddenly stopped in 2007,'' she added.

Nalavade submitted that the committee has proposed to fix the fees at
the rate of Rs100 per student monthly for Std 1-4, Rs150 for Std 5-7
and Rs200 for Std 8-10, which will be put before the cabinet for
approval.

Singh said that earlier each students were reimbursed between
Rs300-500 per month, but after 2007, this was reduced to a mere Rs5-7
per student, and the government even began to retrospectively recover
the 'lost' money from schools. The next hearing is on December 21.

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[ZESTCaste] Bihar panel to look into issue of upper caste poor

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bihar-panel-to-look-into-issue-of-upper-caste-poor/725388/

Bihar panel to look into issue of upper caste poor

Santosh Singh Posted online: Thu Dec 16 2010, 01:32 hrs
Patna : Fulfilling an election promise, the Nitish Kumar government
will constitute a Uccha Jati Ayog, an upper caste commission, that
will explore ways and means to provide justice to the poor among the
upper castes. The commission is likely to suggest a 10 per cent
reservation in jobs for the poor among the upper caste.The upper
castes comprise 16 per cent of the state's population and Nitish has
inducted 11 upper caste ministers, including Narendra Singh, Gautam
Singh and Janardhan Singh Sigriwal, Nitish Mishra, Giriraj Singh and
Chandramohan Roy, in his 30-member Cabinet this time. Cabinet
Secretary Afzal Amanullah said: "The Cabinet has given a nod to set up
Uchcha Jati Ayog as soon as possible." The Cabinet, he added, also
discussed the need for a study on the health and education related
problems of the needy among upper castes. CM Nitish Kumar said: "The
commission will conduct a comprehensive study of problems faced by
economically backward among upper caste groups."The state already has
commissions for SC/ ST, EBC s and Mahadalits. While RJD leader Lalu
Prasad and LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan decided not to comment on the
move, Bihar Congress spokesperson Premchanda Mishra called the panle a
"complete hogwash". He said: "Can Nitish Kumar tell us how many
recommendations of sundry commissions set up by him have been
honoured? If he is so concerned about the upper caste, let him give
the deputy CM's post to an upper caste individual."

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[ZESTCaste] Jupudi criticises MRPS founder

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/205692/print

Jupudi criticises MRPS founder
Dec 14 2010

Tirupati, Dec. 13: The MLC, Mr Jupudi Prabhakara Rao, asked MRPS
founder president, Mr Manda Krishna Madiga, on Monday "to give up his
drama" and work for the uplift of Dalits.

Addressing a press meet here, Mr Rao said that the fight of the MRPS
for categorisation of SCs was unjust and that the forum could instead
work for the unity of Dalits for their all-round development.

He said that even the Supreme Court and the National SC Commission had
not favoured the categorisation of Dalits. He said that various
sub-castes of the Dalits were still distant from any uplift in the
political, educational and business fields.

Replying to a question, Mr Rao said that the Congress had suffered
irreparable damage by letting Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy go from the party.

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Illiterate brings out a book on Ambedkar - Ambedkar Award proposal

Illiterate brings out a book on Ambedkar

Posted by: "Siddhartha Kumar" mailsiddhartha.k@gmail.com tellsiddhartha

Wed Dec 15, 2010 4:30 am (PST)

[ZESTCaste] Mayawati calls for ban on ‘made snana’

[ZESTCaste] Government leaves SC/ST students in lurch

[ZESTCaste] Bihar panel to look into issue of upper caste poor

[ZESTCaste] Jupudi criticises MRPS founder

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