-The Hindu MHA had announced that data on OBCs would be collected in 2021 Census The Office of the Registrar General of India (RGI) has said that deliberations and file notings regarding the Central government’s announcement in 2018 to collect data on Other Backward Classes (OBC) as part of Census 2021, is not available with its office. The RGI, in its response to an RTI query filed by The Hindu, added that...
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Are we witnessing depeasantisation in Indian agriculture?
The newly released Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round) establishes the fact that the farm households are more and more relying on wage incomes instead of 'net incomes from crop cultivation' for their livelihoods. In Marxian lexicon, proletarisation (a term that we can loosely use for depeasantisation) refers to the process in which the farmers/ tillers are...
More »School principal makes Dalit students sit in separate queues during mid-day meal in UP, suspended -Namita Bajpai
-The New Indian Express A detailed probe is underway after the FIR was registered against Soni under relevant sections of the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act. LUCKNOW: The principal of a primary school in Vanpurwa Gaderi gram panchayat of Amethi district of UP made students belonging to the Scheduled Castes sit in different queues during the mid-day meals on the school premises. An FIR has been registered and the school principal has been suspended. A...
More »A new wave of Bahujan solidarity seeks to break down barriers in India -Johanna Deeksha
-Scroll.in Young people from marginalised communities are building networks to challenge the upper-Caste capture of academic and professional spaces. One day sometime in mid 2020, Aditi Priya, a Masters’ graduate in economics employed with a research organisation, messaged Disha Wadekar, a lawyer, on Facebook. Priya needed help with research she was conducting on the link between police presence and gender-based violence on women, particularly in marginalised communities. She felt Wadekar, as a...
More »What are the government's objections to a Caste census? -G Sampath
-The Hindu * Why did the government file an affidavit in the Supreme Court regarding the Caste census? What is the status of the data collected under the SECC-2011 census? The story so far: In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on September 23, the Union government has categorically ruled out conducting a Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC), stating that a Caste census (except that for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes...
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