-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Poonam Vanzara, 15, a nomadic girl from Dahod, and a resident of Vatva in Ahmedabad, has not even been to school. She along with 14.93 lakh children in the age group of 6-18 years from Gujarat have never attended school. The census figures about attending education institute reveal that around 9.63% children and youth between 6-18 years have never attended the schools. Gujarat has 1.55 crore children...
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This is how a Karnataka village stopped discriminating against a Dalit cook in a govt school -Anisha Sheth
-TheNewsMinutes.com It needed not just convincing, but also the threat of legal action against those who discriminated It took a lot of convincing, backed by the possibility of cases being filed against them, to get upper caste people to stop objecting to a Dalit woman being appointed as a cook in the Mysuru government school, where Chief Minister Siddaramaiah studied. On Friday, The Indian Express reported that attendance at a government school...
More »Water crisis in Bundelkhand village triggers caste conflict -Desh Deep
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Water scarcity in a distant village of drought-hit Bundelkhand region triggered caste conflict after members of upper caste objected to fetching of water by dalits from a dug well. The trouble in in Kiratpura village, 100 km from the district headquarters of Chhatarpur, home to 40 families began earlier this week on Monday after a clash between members of upper caste and dalits over water. After the...
More »In Karnataka school, every day she writes in midday meal diary: ‘No one ate today’ -Santosh Kumar RB
-The Indian Express Since appointment of Dalit cook, 100 have left Kagganahalli school in Kolar. Kagganahalli (Karnataka): Every day Radhamma takes out a diary she is required to maintain as part of the mid-day meal scheme in government schools in Karnataka and writes four words, “No one ate today.” Every day for the past five months. Radhamma is a Scheduled Caste, and the condition that she not make food is the only way...
More »In Gujarat’s Patan district, separate anganwadis for dalit children -Ritu Pradhan
-The Indian Express In Hajipur’s two anganwadis, which take in children between six months and six years, untouchability is one of the first life lessons they learn. Patan (Gujarat): A digit separates anganwadis 159 and 160 in Hajipur village of Gujarat’s Patan district but the divisions are far greater. Now that’s complicated math for a three-year-old. So one morning, a few weeks ago, Manavi Chamar walked towards anganwadi No. 160, lost...
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