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Saturday, December 31, 2011

[ZESTCaste] FFEI wishes you happy and purposeful New Year

Dear esteemed donors, friends, and well-wishers,

FFEI wishes you and your families a very bright, happy, prosperous, and purposeful Happy New Year 2012.

May the worst of everything we experienced in 2011 be the dead past and a world with peace, liberty, equality, and nondiscrimination be born in 2012.

I remember a prayer by Rev Reinhold Niebuhr.

God, grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can,

And wisdom to know the difference.

Yes, if one desist changing things one is capable of, it is waste to be born as human. So, we are all trying to change things (however small they might be), through FFEI.

THANK YOU!!!

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Friday, December 30, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Dalit, Tribal MPs eye private campus quota

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111228/jsp/nation/story_14935231.jsp

Dalit, Tribal MPs eye private campus quota
BASANT KUMAR MOHANTY

New Delhi, Dec. 27: An association of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled
Tribe MPs has appealed to the Prime Minister to bring a law to allow
student quotas in private institutions.

The 165 parliamentarians, who form the Forum of SC and ST
Parliamentarians, want the government to heed the 93rd amendment to
the Constitution Act. Six years ago, the government had brought the
amendment to provide reservation to students of SCs and STs and other
backward classes (OBCs) in educational institutions, including those
in private sector.

A separate law was passed to bring into force the reservation system
in central institutions, but regarding private institutions no law
came.

"The private educational institutions are not giving reservation to
students from disadvantaged sections, though the 93rd constitutional
amendment provides for it. We have appealed to the Prime Minister to
implement the 93rd constitutional amendment in totality," J. Seelam,
the secretary general of the forum, said.

Through the 93rd amendment, a clause was inserted in Article 15. The
new clause says nothing in this article "shall prevent the state from
making any special provision, by law, for the advancement of any
socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or for the
Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes in so far as such special
provisions relate to their admission to educational institutions
including private educational institutions".

It adds that such institutions may be "aided or unaided by the state,
other than minority educational institutions".

The forum members met Manmohan Singh early this month. "The Prime
Minister has assured us that the demand would be considered," Seelam
said.

When Kapil Sibal took over as human resource development minister in
May 2009, he told reporters that the bill providing for reservation in
private institutions would be brought after consensus among
stakeholders. The ministry, it seems, has not taken any step in this
direction yet.

The forum members also met Sibal. They also demanded reservation for
SC and ST students in the branches of foreign universities in India.

The government has introduced a bill in Parliament to allow the entry
of foreign educational institutions. These institutions are exempt
from the government's reservation policy because they are being
treated as private institutions.

Seelam said: "If the law is enacted to provide reservation in private
institutions, it will automatically apply to the foreign
universities."

The forum has also demanded for provision of representation from SC
and ST communities in future higher education tribunals.

The forum also told Sibal that a bill should be brought to check
harassment of SC and ST students and cases of discrimination against
them on campus.

A HRD ministry official said the representation of the forum is under
consideration of the ministry.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit cook: Students skip midday meal

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/bengaluru/dalit-cook-students-skip-midday-meal-653

Dalit cook: Students skip midday meal

December 31, 2011
DC
Shimoga

This could come as a rude shock to those who believed that caste
barriers were on the decline in modern India. Students of the
government lower primary school at Yelige near Tumari in Sagar taluk
have not been accepting the free mid-day meals for the past eight
years. Reason: the woman cook belongs to the Dalit community! Of the
16 students, only 7 have been taking the food provided at the school.
Yelige is a remote village in the backwater region of Sharavathi
valley.

Teachers expressed their helplessness saying that four of the students
belonged to the Schedule Castes while the remaining students were not
keen on having the mid-day meals despite the efforts made to convince
them. When asked about this, a class five student said, "The cooks are
from a lower caste, so we do not eat the food served by them." Another
student said, "Parents scold us, so we decided not to have the meals."

According to school sources, the cook Ms Padmavati was appointed as
chief cook at ther school under the Akshara Dasoha scheme in 2004. But
later, villagers of Yelige and some parents objected to the
appointment and appealed to the then health and family welfare
minister Kagodu Thimmappa to stall her appointment as students of both
upper and lower castes study at the school. Since then, most of the
students have stayed away from the mid-day meal scheme except for
seven who are having the food. According to a Dalit leader, Manjappa,
all students would have accepted the mid-day meal if their parents had
not put pressure on them not to accept the meals.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit family asks Rahul Gandhi to finish dinner and leave house at midnight

http://www.fakingnews.com/2011/12/dalit-family-asks-rahul-gandhi-to-finish-dinner-and-leave-house-at-midnight/

Dalit family asks Rahul Gandhi to finish dinner and leave house at midnight

Lucknow. Taking a cue from Rajya Sabha, which suspended proceedings
abruptly as soon as the clock struck 12 in the midnight, a dalit
family hosting Rahul Gandhi for dinner asked the Congress MP to leave
their house as soon as they realized that it was end of the calendar
day.

Rahul Gandhi had eaten just one roti (bread) when Dhaniram, the host,
asked him to leave his house as the day reserved for showing
hospitality to Rahul Gandhi had come to an end.

"We were having a nice chat and Rahul Baba was showing Dhaniram live
television on his 3G enabled Aakash tablet gifted to him by Kapil
Sibal," a Congress worker, who had accompanied Rahul Gandhi, recalled
the events of the last night.
Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi was shocked but didn't comment anything over the incident

Dhaniram asked Rahul Gandhi to show him news channels to check if his
name and face was already on national television for hosting the
future Prime Minister of India. Rahul obliged, but to his
disappointment, Dhaniram found all the news channels broadcasting
Parliament proceedings instead of breaking news on Rahul Gandhi having
dinner at a dalit household.

"Rahul Baba explained something about Lokpal, but my mood was already
off by then," Dhaniram confided his honest feelings to Faking News, "I
had paid a bribe of 500 rupees to the local agent who had promised
that I will be popular after Rahul Gandhi visited my home. But there
was not a single journalist covering the event! Only you Faking News
guys were there! WTF!"

Adding to his woes was the half-an-hour explanation by Rahul Gandhi on
how the Sarkari Lokpal can tackle corruption better than Jan Lokpal.

"To hell with all kind of Lokpals, I was more concerned about my 500
rupees and the food that I had invested to earn some fame," Dhaniram
said.

Already frustrated and exasperated at his loss, Dhaniram went mad when
Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die as soon as it was midnight. This
killed all hopes of any non-Lokpal news being flashed.

"All that they were talking on TV was how the day had ended and no
business could take place any further, while the disastrous day that I
was having appeared to extend forever," Dhaniram recalled how his wife
started quarrelling with him as she had to cook food for five extra
persons – Rahul Gandhi, his security guards, and the agent who fleeced
Dhaniram.

However, the Parliament proceedings gave Dhaniram an idea on how to
put an end to his sufferings. He immediately announced that the day
had ended and the honorable Rahul Gandhi must leave his house keeping
with the lofty traditions of the Indian parliament.

This left everyone stunned, as if Tendulkar was bowled at 99.

After regaining their composure, Congress workers tried to reason with
Dhaniram but he remained adamant. The red faced agent even offered to
fix a Walk The Talk appointment with Shekhar Gupta on NDTV, but
Dhaniram was not ready to believe anyone anymore. Rahul Gandhi had to
leave his house after having just one roti and a small bite off a
pyaaz (onion).

"RSS agent," Digvijay Singh claimed about Dhaniram.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit students feted

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/214611/dalit-students-feted.html

Dalit students feted
Madikeri, Dec 26, DHNS:

Speaking at a programme organised to felicitate meritorious students
organised by Karnataka Dalit Sangharsha Samithi in Madikeri on Friday,
he said the government has chalked out several plans for the welfare
of the community members.

There is a gap between the empowered and poor Dalits. The dream of Dr
B R Ambedkar for the uplift of Dalits have not been realised even to
this day.

The higher class should show concern towards the Dalits, he added. DC
Dr N V Prasad called upon the Dalits to make use of the facilities and
come up in life. DSS convener H L Diwakar presided. Meritorious
students were felicitated on the occasion.