-The Indian Express PS Krishnan was a rare bureaucrat who sought to reform government for marginalised PS Krishnan, who left us on November 10, was an extraordinary combination of the bureaucrat-reformer-activist. His was a life driven by single-minded devotion to the cause of the deprived and exploited. From his student days in his native Kerala and later, as a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in the Andhra Pradesh cadre —...
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Data shows Dalit MPs battle parties, voters and prejudice even in reserved seats -Rukmini S
-ThePrint.in The Chitradurga MP’s experience exemplifies how upper castes respond to Dalit politicians, even in 2019. A Dalit MP from Karnataka had to reason with priests in a village to let him in. They did not. Still, the BJP MP, A. Narayanaswamy, chose not to press charges because the village had voted for him in the 2019 elections. The incident sparked an important debate not only about the persistence of caste untouchability in...
More »SCs, STs, OBCs and women poorly represented in police force; STs, women less likely to be posted as officers -Fazil Khan
-News18.com All three communities, SCs, STs and OBCs, are poorly represented in Delhi – the only Union Territory included in the study. New Delhi: Disadvantaged communities such as the scheduled castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes(STs), Other Backwards Castes (OBCs) as well as women are under-represented in the country's police force, a study has revealed. According to the Common Cause-CSDS Lokniti's 'Status of Policing in India Report 2019', while SCs are under-represented in 19...
More »Why most drop-outs from IITs, IIMs are from reserved category? -Shyna Kalra
-The Indian Express In terms of IITs, the maximum dropouts are seen in IIT-Delhi, while at IIMs, most dropouts took place at IIM Indore followed by IIM Kashipur. At IIM-Kashipur, all the dropouts in the past two years were reserved-category students. Out of 2,461 students who dropped out from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the last two years, 371 students were from the scheduled caste (SC), 199 from the Scheduled...
More »Census 2021 may skip caste count -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu A large number of caste names are difficult to tabulate, says official. New Delhi: Census 2021 is unlikely to collect “caste wise” data as a similar exercise conducted in 2011 by another ministry threw up about 40 lakh caste names that were difficult to tabulate, a senior government official said on Friday. The decennial exercise would involve 31 lakh trained enumerators, with data collected digitally using Android based mobile phones. The Census...
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