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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Maharashtra's Bizarre Address Rule Leaves Its Nomadic Tribes Out in the Cold -Varsha Torgalkar

Maharashtra's Bizarre Address Rule Leaves Its Nomadic Tribes Out in the Cold -Varsha Torgalkar

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published Published on Aug 25, 2016   modified Modified on Aug 26, 2016
-TheWire.in

Members of nomadic and denotified tribes are required to produce address proof from 1961 to obtain a caste certificates, without which they cannot avail the benefits of government schemes.

Chetan Ramchandra Pawar, 23, works as a labourer 125 kms away from Pune in the farms of Sansar village. That is, if he is lucky enough to get work. Pawar, who belongs to the Vadar community – a nomadic tribe – otherwise has no other option but to sit at home.

In 2011 he did a course in welding from a private centre that cost him Rs 40,000, but he could not get a job. His mother is still paying instalments for the money she borrowed from a neighbour. He had secured a free seat in a local Industrial Training Institute reserved for nomadic and denotified tribes or the Bhatke Vimukta Jatis that he belongs to. But he could not produce a caste certificate and hence had to lose a free seat.

As per the Maharashtra Scheduled Castes, Scheduled tribes, Denotified tribes (Vimukta Jatis), Nomadic tribes, Other Backward Classes, and Special Backward Category (Regulations of Issuance and Verification of) Caste Certificate Act, 2000 (Maha XXIII of 2001), the competent authority may issue a caste certificate to the applicant who is permanent resident of the concerned area on deemed date that is 1961 for nomadic and denotified tribes.

If the said person is born after the deemed date, then he must produce address proof of permanent address of his father or grandfather or great grandfather on the deemed date.

Pawar is unfortunately not aware of the birthplace of his father, who died when he was ten years old. Since then, he has been residing with his maternal grandparents. Besides, since they belonged to a nomadic tribe, his father and grandfather used to migrate from one village to another and were not fortunate enough to attend school. His is the first generation in the family to attend school. The family does not have an address proof from 1961 at all and hence cannot obtain a caste certificate.

Suman Shinde, 45, stays in a 10×10 feet hut made of wooden branches. When it rains, she, along with her family of seven, have to take shelter in a nearby community temple. If she had a caste certificate, the state government would have built her home under its Gharkul Yojana, for which she qualified.

Shinde’s is among the 25 families of the Dombari community – a nomadic tribe, in the Anthurne village of the Indapur Taluka of Pune district – with the same story. Members of the Domabari community used to earn their living by tightrope walking and by performing other such stunts to entertain people. Now the community earns wages by working on farms or construction sites. Shinde and several others from her community are unaware of where their ancestors used to stay in 1961 and hence it is impossible for them to produce an address proof from then.

Pawar and Shinde are two of the numerous victims of the flawed resolution. Denotified tribes and nomadic tribes in general have to undergo this ordeal ever since the law came into existence in 2012. Most of them are unaware that it should obtain the caste certificates in order to avail benefits of government schemes. Whoever tries to obtain these caste certificates has to go through further hurdles. If they do not receive the certificates, they have no other option but to stay quiet.

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TheWire.in, 25 August, 2016, http://thewire.in/61207/maharashtras-nomadic-tribes/


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