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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | UP govt denying 23% quota to SC: Punia

UP govt denying 23% quota to SC: Punia

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published Published on Jan 12, 2011   modified Modified on Jan 12, 2011

Alleging that the UP government had failed to provide the prescribed 23% quota to scheduled castes in government services, chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) PL Punia claimed it was also misutilising the funds meant for the dalit.

Talking to media on Monday evening, Punia said as per the ratio of the scheduled castes in the total population of the state, a provision had been made to reserve 23% seats in government services. However, in class-I only 12% seats had been filled with SC candidates while in class-II and class-III the situation was no better as 15% and 17% seats respectively had been given to the SC candidates.

In class-IV, the state government had claimed that 34% seats had been given to SC candidates, said Punia. But, he said there were orders not to include the figures of safai workers in the reserved seats of this class and the state government had included them in the same 34%. "If the figures of safai employees are separated from this 34%, it can be found that the state government has not ensured the implementation of the orders in this class as well," Punia claimed.

Misutilisation of funds reserved for dalit population in the Special Component Plan (SCP) was also a cause of serious concern for the NCSC chairman. He said the Delhi government had spent Rs 748 crore of SCP in the preparations of the Commonwealth Games despite the fact that the fund should have been utilised for dalits only. The fund was spent in works like flyover construction, stadium and road construction as well as gardening, he said. After the commission took a serious note of it, he said, the Delhi government returned the fund.

"The UP government is also misutilising this fund," said Punia and added SCP fund was being spent in creating five medical colleges in the state at Jalaun, Kannoj, Saharanpur, Ambedkar Nagar and Banda. The SCP fund was also being used in homoeopathy hospitals and in increasing facilities at animal husbandry department. He said how was the dalit population going to be benefited by that? "It should be made clear whether only dalit students would be admitted to those medical colleges or only dalits would be treated there," he pointed out.

Punia said report of the UP government had revealed that there had been an increase of 24% in cases of atrocities against dalit in 2010. He said provisions had also been made to provide compensation to dalits in cases of crime committed against them but the Mayawati government was not showing any interest in giving compensation to the victims. He said his UP visits had irked the chief minister as he created awareness among dalits about their rights.

Punia also delivered a special lecture on social cohesion and national development organised by the social science faculty of Banaras Hindu University on Tuesday. He said the commission had taken a serious note of the suicide committed by Laxman Prasad of Jhansi after humiliation by Rakhi Sawant in a reality show of a television channel. He said that she had been summoned by the commission and a notice had been served upon her.

Punia also attended a camp organised by the Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights in Badalpur to create awareness among the scheduled tribes on Tuesday afternoon.

The Times of India, 11 January, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/UP-govt-denying-23-quota-to-SC-Punia/articleshow/7261402.cms


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