After 47 days of their sit-in, government agrees to pay prevailing minimum wage From a black Diwali to a colourful Id! For hundreds of labourers who sat on dharna from October 2 near the Statue Circle here to press their demand for minimum wages under the MNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme), it was celebration time on Wednesday. After 47 days of sit-in protest, which was preceded by a...
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What's in NREGA for the middle class? by Aruna Roy
Despite its seminal success in beginning a process of addressing issues of poverty, starvation and empowering the poor, the MGNREGA needed a general election to breathe life into it. However, the disproportionate influence of the middle class on social sector policy has led to the same set of pre-election prejudices resurfacing. "What use is the MGNREGA to the economy at large?" asks the businessman, one eye fixed apprehensively on the share...
More »Crimes against dalits not rising: Mayawati govt
The Uttar Pradesh government today termed as "baseless" the allegations made by the Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes that crimes against SC and ST communities in the state have increased."State chief secretary Atul Kumar Gupta has forwarded entire data related to these issues to the NCSC while terming the allegations of its Chairman PL Punia as baseless," an official spokesman said here.Punia during his visit to Lucknow on...
More »Upper castes in remote area of Uttar Pradesh object to Angrezi Devi by Deepak Gidwani
A Dalit-dominated hamlet in remote area of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is on the radar of top officials of the Mayawati administration nowadays. At the crux of their interest is a new goddess ‘Angrezi Devi’. Construction of a temple consecrated to this goddess of English is in full swing in Jang Bahadur Ganj village of Lakhimpur Kheri district. But tension has already begun to simmer over this unique campaign to popularise English...
More »US prez has given dalits a reason to smile: NCSC chief by Subodh Ghildiyal
Barack Obama's mention of Mahatma Gandhi as the man who made his presidency possible and his invocation of "a dalit", Ambedkar, as the author of the Constitution had the MPs in audience gushing that his words could boost the struggle for social justice like few statements can. PL Punia, chairman of the National Commission for SCs, said that "Obama identified himself with champions of dalit rights" which was unheard of for...
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