-The Hindustan Times Rohtak: Tension gripped Madina village of this district after three motorcycle-borne youth shot dead two members of the Dalit community on Saturday evening. The deceased were identified as Sudhir, 10, and Vikram,22. According to police sources, Sudhir, Vikram and another member of the community, Sandeep, 23, were returning from a field to their dwellings when the assailants opened fire on them. The 10-year-old boy died on the spot, while...
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Govt plans law to ensure 22.5% spending on Dalits, tribals -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India The Centre is mulling a law to ensure that 22.5% of the Union Budget is exclusively spent for Dalit and tribal welfare, a move seen as an outreach to the Congress support base that is bristling at the party's failure on the flagship demand to restore reservation in promotions. A law on Dalit and tribal sub-plans would go beyond the symbolic to bind the government to...
More »The rugged road to justice-V Vasanthi Devi
-The Hindu The circumstances surrounding the custodial death of a Dalit woman in Tamil Nadu in 2002 serve as a reminder of the difficulties in securing justice when the offenders are government functionaries This is a case of justice being awarded after a decade. Last month, the Ramanathapuram Sessions Court sentenced eight policemen to rigorous imprisonment, for up to 10 years, for the 2002 custodial killing of Karuppi, a poor Dalit woman,...
More »UP govt to launch rural housing scheme today -Neha Shukla
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has made women from poor rural background direct beneficiaries ofLohiaGrameenAwasYojana and has allotted Rs520 crore for the scheme to provide shelter to homeless rural populace of the state, which would be launched today. War widows need not even confirm to the income criteria to be beneficiaries under the scheme. People who are not yet on the list of BPL survey...
More »Caste, corruption and romanticism -Kancha Ilaiah
-The Hindu The Dalit-Bahujan theory or Ambedkarism cannot negotiate with funny theories of sociologists like Ashis Nandy. The best way to counter them is to write a better theory Utsa Patnaik, a noted economist said in a small note that she circulated "Ashis Nandy had earlier made approving remarks on the 1988 Deorala burning to death of a young widow in the name of sati (terming it a courageous act in a...
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