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Sunday, January 1, 2012

[ZESTCaste] My blog

Dear friends,

I have been thinking of writing my own blog for years. I created several in the past and never wrote. But this year, I determined to do it. I am not sure if I can fulfill it or not, but I wrote yesterday and today.

If anyone is interested, please have a look at it and let me know your thoughts.

http://benjaminkaila.blogspot.com/

I speak what I have in my mind, never with an intention to hurt anyone. I have strong opinions, still open to dialogue and change my thoughts if I see merit in what others say. I consider myself a student and try to learn every minute of my life from books and others. At the same time I try to let others know what I think and what my opinions are.

My writing skills are also not great. Coming from a vernacular medium education background, I lack the required training in writing. Still, I venture in the midst of the highly learned people and academics in these forums. I have passionate desire to share my thoughts to the world, though my skills are limited. Please excuse my shortcomings.

So, please do not shy to engage me in dialogue, it never hurt me. I welcome you to correct me if I am wrong. I welcome you to educate me where I lack it.

Thanks

Ben

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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

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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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Sunday, January 1, 2012

[ZESTCaste] My blog

[ZESTCaste] Right to Recall: A Dalit’s Viewpoint

Right to Recall: A Dalit's Viewpoint

Saturday, December 31, 2011

[ZESTCaste] FFEI wishes you happy and purposeful New Year

Friday, December 30, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Dalit, Tribal MPs eye private campus quota

[ZESTCaste] Dalit cook: Students skip midday meal

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