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[ZESTCaste] Mayawati inaugurates various schemes worth Rs2,000 crore

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Mayawati inaugurates various schemes worth Rs2,000 crore

Published: Friday, May 13, 2011, 20:50 IST
Place: Lucknow | Agency: PTI

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati today inaugurated various
schemes worth Rs2,000 crore at a function to mark completion of four
years in office.

The schemes include beautification and cleanliness project for
Ghaziabad worth Rs36.21 crore, power projects worth Rs763 crore, water
works for Lucknow worth Rs173 crore and foundation laying of six
polytechnics to be constructed at the cost of Rs645 crore.

She also inaugurated parks named after many dalit icons and Congress
leader Rajendra Kumari Bajpai, whose son and daughter-in-law are now
members of the BSP.

On the occasion, she justified erecting parks and memorials after
dalit icons saying that the expenditure on them had been merely 1% of
the state's budget and that had been duly passed by the assembly.

The chief minister's family including her parents also attended the
function. Mayawati was seen sitting with her neice and enjoying the
various cultural programmes specially put up for the occasion.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit women conference concludes

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Dalit women conference concludes

Seek statute rights‚ end to discrimination

Added At: 2011-05-13 11:24 PM

HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE

KATHMANDU: A three-day national conference of Dalit women, that began
on May 11 with the theme 'Dignified life, inclusion and social
transformation', ended today with

38-point Kathmandu Declaration.

During the conference, Dalit women demanded the government,
Constituent Assembly, political parties and other concerned to end all
kinds of discrimination against them.

They also demanded proportionate representation in all government
organs such as parliament, government, administrative mechanism, and
various organisations.

They have urged constitutional provision of 20 per cent reservation
for Dalit community and 50 per cent reservation for women. Durga Sob,
president of Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO), said that out of
total reservation for women, Dalit women should have 20 per cent
reservation and within the Dalit community, women should have 50 per
cent reservation.

Dalit women also demanded establishment of Badi Development Board to
address the problems of Badi women.

They also wanted representation of Dalit women in both private and
government media houses, free membership in the Public Service
Commission' training classes, and free training for Dalit women.

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[ZESTCaste] DALIT GIRL’S MURDER IN HARYANA

http://pd.cpim.org/2011/0515_pd/05152011_17.html

May 15, 2011

DALIT GIRL'S MURDER IN HARYANA

CPI(M) Lambasts Police Apathy

THROUGH a statement issued from Rohtak on May 11, the Haryana state
committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has expressed deep
anguish over the failure of the police to apprehend the culprits who
had in the preceding week perpetrated the most heinous crime of
abduction, rape and murder of a school girl in Kurukshetra. Through
this press statement the party's state secretariat said that ordinary
citizens of the state were compelled to live in utmost fear in the
wake of an unprecedented spurt in crime all over the Haryana,
especially during the recent months.

The party has cited that display of mass protest in Kurukshetra
against this gruesome murder of a dalit school girl was enough
testimony to the anger brewing among the common people against the
callous attitude of the police in general and in this case in
particular. The CPI(M) has asked the chief minister, who is in charge
of the home department also, to come out with effective steps to
restore the sense of security among the common people.

The CPI(M) has stated that women in general and the women of dalit and
other weaker sections in particular are bearing the brunt of worst
sexual assaults and other form of violence. The state units of the
CPI(M) and CPI have resolved the work for contacting political
parties, mass organisations, social groups and general public towards
forging a wider platform in order to launch an effective mass campaign
for security of life and property of the common people.

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[ZESTCaste] A voluminous dossier on Dalit writing

http://www.hindu.com/2011/05/09/stories/2011050959270200.htm

Kerala - Kochi

A voluminous dossier on Dalit writing

Special Correspondent

The cover of the book 'No Alphabet in sight'

Kochi: Nothing other than the words of Poykayil Appachan would form a
fitting title for the first dossier of Dalit writing in Tamil and
Malayalam brought out as part of a project on new Dalit writing in
South India: 'No Alphabet in Sight' ( Kanunneeloraksharavum in
Malayalam).

The voluminous dossier, edited by acclaimed scholars K. Satyanarayana
and Susie Tharu, both faculty members at the Department of Cultural
Studies of the English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U),
Hyderabad, was released at a function here recently.

Speaking at the book launch, Mr. Satyanarayana, also an activist and
Telugu litterateur, said there was a dearth of critical writing on
Dalit thinking in English in the country, especially in the South.

"For instance, there is a vibrant Dalit movement in Telugu, but it is
not documented in English," he said, citing the reasons for embarking
upon the project.

Talking of the anthology featuring prominent Dalit writers in
Malayalam and Tamil, Mr. Satyanarayana said their works provided an
alternative point of view, just as the way most of these writers lived
their lives.

"Most of them live in difficult conditions, but they have taken up the
serious task of investing in the cultural domain," he said.

Ms. Tharu, in her address, said that so far, it had been a small group
that had dominated social science studies.

"There has been no methodological inventiveness, no passion or drive,
leave alone richness in mainstream sociological discourses for long.

The non-canonical writers, on the contrary come up with completely
different, often shocking, articulation of issues. It is like the
elephant telling the story of the blind men," she said.

Ms. Tharu, however, cautioned that the volume was far from the
beginning of the formulation of an ideology. "It is an offering with
which different people will do different things," she hoped.

The book was released by Ravi Deecee of DC Books. T. Muralidharan
accepted the first copy.

Earlier, the function began on a colourful note with Pradeepan
Pambirikkunu's moving rendition of Poykayil Appachan's popular song, '
Kanunneeloraksharavum…'

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[ZESTCaste] Hazare's aides following anti-Dalit agenda under influence: Mayawati

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Hazare's aides following anti-Dalit agenda under influence: Mayawati

mayawati-1 Lucknow, May 13 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati
today launched an attack on the initiative of social activist Anna
Hazare saying his team was functioning under the influence of other
political parties and alleged his anti-corruption movement had
'anti-Dalit' undertones.

"I welcome the anti-corruption drive initiated by Anna Hazare, but the
fact remains that he and his team are playing in the hands of
political outfits," the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party president here
alleged while addressing a function on the occasion of fourth
anniversay of her government in the state.

Alleging that his anti-corruption initiative launched from Uttar
Pradesh had some political interest behind it, she said "there have
been a number of scams in Anna's home state of Maharashtra, but to
start the movement from UP raises doubt over the intentions." Ms
Mayawati did not mince words while commenting that the associates of
Mr Hazare and the entire civil society were following anti-dalit
agenda on the behest of other political forces.

The BSP supremo warned the civil society that she may organise
country-wide public meetings to unveil the double standards adopted by
its members.

--UNI

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Mayawati inaugurates various schemes worth Rs2,000 crore

[ZESTCaste] Dalit women conference concludes

[ZESTCaste] DALIT GIRL’S MURDER IN HARYANA

[ZESTCaste] A voluminous dossier on Dalit writing

[ZESTCaste] Hazare's aides following anti-Dalit agenda under influence: Mayawati

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