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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 begins

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Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 begins
By ANI | ANI – 13 hours ago

Tripura, June 29 (ANI): The first ever post independence
Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 to identify people living Below
Poverty Line (BPL) began on Wednesday from Sankhola village of
Hazemara block in West Tripura District.

It is a door-to-door census in the entire country.aunching the Census,
B.K.Sinha Secretary, Rural Development ,Government of India said this
gigantic exercise will pave the way to identify the households living
below the poverty line in rural and urban areas of the country.

"The entire process will be completed by end of 2011-12. The results
relating to the identification of poor households would be utilized in
the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-13 to 2016-17)," he added.

He said the BPL Census will be conducted by State Governments/Union
Territory Administrations with the technical and financial support of
the Ministry of Rural Development.

"The Census would be based on a self-declaration model of the
respondents. The information would be verified and approved by the
Gram Sabha. Procedure for filing claims and objections and its
disposal will be prescribed separately by the Ministry. The Ministry
will also provide detailed guidelines for conducting survey and
finalization of BPL list," he added.

Low cost handheld device will be used for collection of data in Socio
Economic Census 2011. It would reduce the time required in processing
the data after collection in the field.

Bharat Electronic Ltd. (BEL) is involved in the production of this
device on large scale. It is proposed to use this device, produced by
BEL, in Socio Economic Census 2011.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) will develop the Management of
Information System (MIS) for the management of the database of Socio
Economic Census 2011 and to facilitate its subsequent use by the MORD,
other ministries and State Governments for their own requirements.
(ANI)

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[ZESTCaste] First-ever below poverty line, caste census begins

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First-ever below poverty line, caste census begins
Our Bureau

Launched in Tripura; exclusion criteria widened

New Delhi, June 29:

The country's first-ever socio-economic and caste Census to identify
people living below poverty line (BPL) was flagged off from a tribal
village, Sankhola, in West Tripura District on Wednesday.

The door-to-door exercise in the entire country is being done
electronically, using low-cost handheld devices produced by Bharat
Electronic Ltd.

Launching the Census in Tripura, Mr B.K Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of
Rural Development, said the entire exercise to identify BPL households
would be completed by 2011-12. The results would be utilised for
targeting the poor in the 12th Plan (2012-13 to 2016-17), an official
release said.

Expert panel

Mr Sinha said identification of BPL households in rural areas would be
done as per the suggestions of the expert group headed by Dr N.C.
Saxena.

Households without shelter, destitutes/living on alms, manual
scavengers, primitive tribal groups, and legally released bonded
labourers will get the highest priority for inclusion in the BPL list,
he said.

The remaining poor households will be identified from the angle of
deprivation by using indicators, such as those with only one room with
kucha walls and kucha roof; with no adult member between age 16 and
59; female-headed households with no male between age 16 and 59;
households with any disabled member and no able-bodied adult; SC/ST
households; those with no literate adult above 25 years; and landless
households deriving the major part of their income from manual casual
labour.

Criteria

Among households that will be excluded from the BPL list are those
owning motorised two/three/four-wheelers, fishing boats (requiring
registration), mechanised three/four-wheeler agricultural equipment
such as tractors, harvesters etc, those with Kisan Credit Cards with
credit limit of Rs 50,000 and above, with any member who is a
Government employee, excluding workers such as ASHAs and Anganwadi
workers and those owning refrigerator or landline phones.
(This article was published in the Business Line print edition dated
June 30, 2011)

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[ZESTCaste] Caste census takes off

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110630/jsp/northeast/story_14176292.jsp

Caste census takes off
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Agartala, June 29: Independent India's first socio-economic and caste
census, that commenced here this morning at Sankhola village under
Hezamara block of West Tripura district, has put the state government
in a spot.

The Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011, aimed at determining the
caste-wise break-up as well as the socio-economic status of the
country's 121 crore populace, was launched by chief minister Manik
Sarkar and secretary, Union ministry of rural development, B.K. Sinha,
during a function at the Prajna Bhawan auditorium here last evening.

Speaking on the occasion, Manik Sarkar said he failed to understand
the rationale behind the Centre's pre-emptive categorisation of 44 per
cent of the rural population and 22 per cent urban population as being
below poverty line before completion of the survey, and added that the
BPL figures should be fixed only after the process was completed.

B.K. Sinha explained the technicalities of the census process, which
would involve door-to-door visits by enumerators who would record the
data on tablet PCs manufactured specifically for this purpose by
Bharat Electronics Limited.

"The information furnished by the respondents would be verified and
cleared by gaon sabhas. The procedure for filing claims, objections
and their disposal is being provided by the ministry of rural
development along with detailed guidelines, on the basis of which the
people actually living below the poverty line will be identified and
listed," Sinha said.

He said the process would be complete by the end of the 2011-2012
fiscal. "The inputs of the census will be used to implement the 12th
Five Year plan for the period 2012-13 to 2016-2017," he added.

Chief commissioner of census C. Chandramouli and Tripura chief
secretary S.K. Panda also attended the programme.

The process holds promise to identify the "real" BPL population of the
country, and therein lies the state government's problem.

Official sources in the state's rural development ministry said the
process would put the state government in a tight spot as there was
bound to a drastic reduction in the number of listed BPL families
following the census, which would mean a reduction of votes for the
ruling government.

The sources added that the three-phase process would lead to
identification of wrong entries and false evidence, further
complicating matters for the government.

As in the first phase, erroneous entries would be dropped from the BPL
list, followed by a comprehensive verification of the new list in the
third phase.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Mirchpur Dalit killing recounted in Delhi court

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24/06/2011
Mirchpur Dalit killing recounted in Delhi court

New Delhi, Jun 23 (PTI) The killing of Dalits in Mirchpur in Haryana
was today recounted in a court here as the son of a 70-year-old man,
who was burnt alive along with his phyiscally challenged daughter by
dominant Jat community people, recalled the chain of events in his
deposition.
Making his deposition before Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau,
25-year-old Amar Lal, son of slain elderly dalit Tara Chand, said that
on the fateful day of April 21, 2010, a 400-strong mob of Jats had
descended on the village, armed with stones, in rickshaws and carts
and attacked the villagers who were barely out of their beds.
Lal said he saw his co-villagers taking shelters on roof- tops of
their houses and retaliating to the massive stone- pelting by the
crowd. He saw Narnaund police station in-charge Vinod Kumar Kajal, who
too is an accused in the case, asking the villagers to gather at the
chaupal, where, he said, he would sort out the issue after a meeting
with Jats.
"The station house officer also assured us that he would also bring
the Jat people to the chaupal and would try to sort out the things,"
Lal said, adding noting came out of the mneeting as hardly any of the
influential jat community members attended it. .

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[ZESTCaste] Tamil Nadu: 300 arrested for caste discrimination

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Tamil Nadu: 300 arrested for caste discrimination
CNN-IBN
Updated Jun 24, 2011 at 06:04pm IST

New Delhi: Over 300 people have been arrested in Tamil Nadu's
Thondamutur town for caste discrimination. All those arrested are
members of a higher caste Gounder community and were trying to stop a
bus from entering a low caste village, that houses about 500 Dalit
families.

One of the villagers from the minority community said, "When we travel
in buses we are forced to get up from our seats and the upper
community orders us to get up and says that they (Gounder community)
should be the only ones who can sit."

"This kind of discrimination existed only at the school level, but
this has begun to spread in villages and buses as well," the villager
added.
Tamil Nadu: 300 arrested for caste discrimination

They have been demanding for buses to become operational in their
village, but the Gounder community did not allow it.

Many school children were also taken into custody. Hundreds of
policemen have been deployed to avoid any communal clash between the
two communities.