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[ZESTCaste] Pucca roads, drains in SC, ST colonies under NREGA

http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/06/stories/2011040661860400.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Pucca roads, drains in SC, ST colonies under NREGA

Special Correspondent

Convergence between NREGA and ACDP to benefit 1,500 ST/ST habitations
spread over 22 districts

HYDERABAD: The inclusion of rural connectivity as one of the
permissible categories of works under the National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) will be a boon for rural development in the
State, said Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy here on Tuesday. The
convergence between the NREGA and the Assembly Constituency
Development Programme (ACDP), will facilitate providing all-weather
connectivity to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other remote
habitations, including pucca internal roads in the SC/ST habitations.

Officials of the Rural Development department informed the Chief
Minister that the convergence would benefit 1,500 ST/ST habitations
spread over 22 districts in the State at a total cost of Rs.1,000
crore during 2011-12.

Public assets

This project would ensure that the State, apart from being the highest
user of NREGA funds, would be able to create durable public assets in
the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes colonies and aid their
development.

Better hygiene

Mr. Reddy hoped that construction of concrete drains in the low-lying
Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes colonies would improve overall
hygienic conditions of the areas and prevent outbreak of diseases like
malaria, cholera and diarrhoea in these areas.

Gram panchayats had been requesting the government to sanction
all-weather rural connectivity to hygienic conditions localities by
allowing convergence with other developments' programmes. They had
proposed to implement the internal roads in the localities by
completing formation, gravelling, and single-layer metalling along
with the pucca drains with NREGA funds, and later take up such roads
for cement concrete from constituency development funds. Such a
facility would transform the Dalit colonies for the better.

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[ZESTCaste] Andhra to use NREGS funds for roads in SC/ST areas

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Andhra to use NREGS funds for roads in SC/ST areas

Sreenivas Janyala Posted online: Thu Apr 07 2011, 02:51 hrs
Hyderabad : Andhra Pradesh will be the first state to use National
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) funds to provide road
connectivity and improve hygienic conditions in remote areas inhabited
by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people.

Rural connectivity has now been included in the permissible category
of works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act (MNREGA).

Following this, the state government decided to spend Rs 1,000 crore
from NREGS funds to construct roads and concrete drains in remote
SC/ST colonies.

Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy said on Wednesday at least 1,500
SC/ST areas in 22 districts — including some of the remotest locations
in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West
Godavari, Khammam, Warangal and Adilabad districts — will benefit.

Every year, a large number of deaths are reported from these locations
due to malaria, diarrhoea and cholera caused by poor hygienic
conditions. Medical care does not reach these areas due to lack of
connectivity.

According to Panchayati Raj officials, many SC/ST colonies in villages
do not have even connecting roads, leave aside drainage systems. Reddy
said the inclusion of rural connectivity under the MNREGA would be a
boon for rural development.

"The construction of concrete drains in low-lying areas will improve
hygiene conditions. Many SC/ST colonies are prone to diseases like
malaria due to poor sanitation,'' the CM said.

District Collectors can now sanction concrete internal roads and
concrete drains in selected localities.

NREGS offices in 22 districts, excluding Hyderabad, have been asked to
identify exclusive SC/ST-dominated areas as well as villages with a
sizeable population from the two backward sections.

The CM said many gram panchayats wanted to build internal roads in
SC/ST localities along with concrete drains with MGNREGS funds and
later concretise such roads with Assembly Constituency Development
Programme funds.

"The gram panchayats are of the opinion that such a step would lead to
the creation of high quality assets under MGNREGA that would have wide
ramifications on the state of public health,'' the CM said.

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[ZESTCaste] Parliamentarians asked to work for uplift of Dalits

http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/06/stories/2011040656080300.htm

Karnataka

Parliamentarians asked to work for uplift of Dalits

Staff Correspondent

'Babu Jagjivan Ram launched several welfare projects for Dalits'

Several Dalits embracing other religions due to ill-treatment by
'caste' Hindus: lecturer

PAYING TRIBUTE:A book on the life of Babu Jagjivan Ram written by
Lingappa, lecturer, being released at a function in in Chitradurga on
Tuesday.

Chitradurga: Lingappa, lecturer in the Government First Grade College,
said on Tuesday that 1,700 Dalits had so far become MPs and wanted to
know from them how much they had worked for the welfare of the fellow
Dalits.

Speaking on the life of Babu Jagjivan Ram at his 104th birth
anniversary function organised by the district administration here,
Mr. Lingappa urged the Dalit parliamentarians to think of contributing
to the uplift of Dalits.

Describing Jagjivan Ram as a socialist politician, Mr. Lingappa said
that the former had launched several welfare projects for Dalits
during his tenure as Union Minister.

"One such initiative was the announcement of the policy of 'land to
the tiller' following which hundreds of Dalits became owners of
agricultural land," he said.

Madanayakayanahalli Rangappa, Dalit leader, said that several Dalits
were embracing other religions such as Islam and Buddhism because of
the ill-treatment by 'caste' Hindus.

Caste system

G.H. Thippareddy, MLC, said that while persons like Nelson Mandela and
Martin Luther King fought against racism in their countries, Jagjivan
Ram, Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar fought against the caste system
in India.

A book on the life of Babu Jagjivan Ram written by Mr. Lingappa was released.

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[ZESTCaste] 29 children rescued from illegal confinement

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Coastal News

29 children rescued from illegal confinement

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 - 16:31:56
S.O. News Service

Mangalore: A group of Dalits and Christians staged a protest against
Women and Child Welfare Department in front of a hostel named balakara
Mandira in Bondel here, on Wednesday. According to the protesters, 29
children aged between 6 and 15 were forcibly kept in illegal
confinement for many days claiming their protection and education.

All the children including one girl identified as Chandana (11) were
from different places of the State, including Tumkur, Halebid, Hassan
and Chikmagalur. Seven of them were also from Patna in Bihar. All of
them were brought to the hostel last Saturday after a raid carried out
by a team led by Child Welfare Committee Chairperson Asha Nayak on a
"congested" hall in Pakshikere near Haleyangady.

Asha Nayak claimed that the children along with around ten other
people, including the family which looked after the children were kept
in a hall, measuring around 250 sq. ft., which had only one bathroom
and a toilet for all of them.

Nayak had said that while interrogating the man in charge of the
so-called hostel, he said that they were brought here for education.
When asked for documents showing parental consent for allowing the
children to be under his care, or financial records, the man claimed
that they were with the chartered accountant, she added.

On Tuesday, the department had asked the parents of all the children
to be present at the remand home but did not hand over the children to
them as they did not bring relevant documents to prove that they are
indeed the parents.

Asha Nayak alleged that the Christian Guru K J Joy, his wife
Elizabeth, and their children Joel and Jobi had kept the 29 children
under illegal confinement. She claimed that the children were also
being forced to convert their religion. Asha Nayaka asserted that
Chandana had complained about Joy molesting her, which provoked the
locals, who thrashed him. Later police took him into custody for
interrogation.

However while confronting the media on Wednesday, the eleven year old
girl changed her statement and asserted that she was neither molested
nor was ill treated by Joy. She added that she was compelled to say
such things against Joy.

Christian Federation of India, Dalita Sangharsha Samiti and KMN staged
a demonstration for over an hour condemning the raid and demanding
justice to Joy. A leader of Christian Federation of India, Prashant
Jattan averred that the incident was a conspiracy against committed
social workers. He stated that the girl has disclosed the truth and
Joy has been proven innocent. DSS leader Keshav was also present.

K J Joy refused the allegations against him and his family and said
that he was running just a children's hostel for children below the
age of 15, so that he could provide them with education. He also
claimed that he received financial support for the cause from foreign
countries. However, he couldn't produce any documents to support his
claims.

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[ZESTCaste] Retired dalit officer''s room ''cleansed'' using cowdung water

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Retired dalit officer''s room ''cleansed'' using cowdung water
PTI | 03:04 PM,Apr 07,2011

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 7 (PTI) In a shocking incident, the office
room and furniture used by a senior government official belonging to a
Scheduled caste community here were 'cleansed' by sprinkling cowdung
water, allegedly by some employees shortly after his retirement from
service. A K Ramakrishnan, who retired as Inspector General of
Registration on March 31, has moved the State Human Rights Commission
seeking an inquiry into the incident. He said in the complaint that he
had reliable information that some employees in the office sprinkled
'cowdung water' over the tables, chairs and even inside the office car
used by him while in service. He said he believed that the 'cleansing'
was performed as he belonged to an SC community and it amounted to
violation of his human rights and civil liberties. After registering a
case based on the petition, SHRC Chairman Justice N Dhinakar sent a
notice to the Secretary Taxes, seeking a report on the allegation by
May 7, SHRC sources said. Asked about the incident, Ramakrishnan said
he would vigorously pursue the case as he considered it as an insult
to the socially depressed class. "I take this not just as a personal
insult. This is a humiliation heaped on the socially depressed classes
as a whole. If this is the experience of a person who had held the
topmost post in a government department, what would be the situation
of ordinary people belonging to the lower rungs of social strata?"
Ramakrishnan told PTI. "All these five years when I worked as IG of
Registration I had bitter experiences. But I have suffered them
without getting worked up. But what has happened even after my
retirement is really painful," he said.

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[ZESTCaste] Parliamentarians asked to work for uplift of Dalits

[ZESTCaste] 29 children rescued from illegal confinement

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