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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Attacks and Resistance Remain the Order of the Day for Dalits This Year - P Ambedkar

Attacks and Resistance Remain the Order of the Day for Dalits This Year - P Ambedkar

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published Published on Jan 2, 2018   modified Modified on Jan 2, 2018
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Whenever Dalits asserted themselves, there were severe backlashes. Budget allocations were reduced, important policies meant for upliftment of SCs and STs were scrapped, and discrimination continued.

As the years pass under the current regime, life for Dalits gets more difficult. The biggest setback this year for Dalits and Adivasis was the scrapping of the Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) in the Union Budget 2017.  

These Special Component Plans, introduced in the 1970s, was to allocate funds for the developmental schemes and programmes for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. According to the SCSP and TSP, funds were allocated in proportion to their population sizes. These were introduced so as to catch up with the rest of society in the so-called developmental race.

This year’s budget not only discontinued this process but also the allocated funds were way below the mandated proportions. According to NCDHR, Rs 91,386 crores and Rs 47,276 crores were the amounts to be allocated for Dalits and Adivasis, respectively, but the current allocations for this year were only 55% for the Dalits (Rs 52,393 crore) and 66.5% for the adivasis (Rs. 31,920 crore).

Education for Dalits is an important aspect. In the age group of 6-14 years, 81% of Dalit children drop out of school, and in the 15-19 age group about 60% of Dalit students drop out. And yet the Pre-Matric scholarships for the SC students, a major incentive to arrest the drop-out rates, saw a reduction in the budget allotment from Rs 510 crore in the last budget to a mere Rs 50 crore for this year.

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Newsclick.in, 30 December, 2017, https://newsclick.in/attacks-and-resistance-remain-order-day-dalits-year


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