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Discrimination during pandemic, cyclones puts lives of dalits at risk -Debabrat Patra and Evangelina Patro

-Down to Earth

Lower caste communities are ostracised and denied access to rehabilitation facilities during natural disasters

The malpractices of untouchability and caste-based discrimination, although banned in India, continues unabated in several districts of Odisha. During a natural calamity, they turn into a greater menace as the ostracised people are denied access to rehabilitation facilities.

Dalit communities Keuta, Kandara and Siara in Puri district, who sell fish to survive, suffered a major financial blow due to the lockdowns during the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 

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