The National Commission for Scheduled Castes Sunday rejected the Uttar Pradesh government's claims of bringing down incidents of violence against Dalits, terming them 'baseless and misleading'. The commission's newly-appointed chairman P.L. Punia said the state government released figures of only the first six months of this year, and atrocities against Dalits had actually registered a steep rise over the three-and-a-half year rule of Bahujan Samaj Party, according to statistics by National...
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Atrocities by Maoists on women go unreported: study by Raktima Bose
That women and children are the worst sufferers during any armed conflict has been proved again by a recent study conducted by the West Bengal Women's Commission (WBWC) on women victims of Maoist violence in the State's Jangal Mahal region. It was found that the atrocities often go unreported and unaccounted, or are misrepresented by a section of society. Based on the study, the WBWC appealed to the Maoists to abjure...
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 »More about Dalit hopes and despair by S Viswanathan
Last week's column, “The plight of Dalits and the news media” (October 25, 2010), has generated a lively and interesting response from several readers. The column was about the prioritisation of the tasks before the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes (NCSC) by its new Chairman, P.L. Punia (not P.J. Punia as erroneously mentioned in the column.) The concern of most who wrote was over the failure of successive governments...
More »Video shows Chandrababu Naidu hitting tribal woman
Did former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu assault a tribal woman during a meeting in East Godavari district? Yes, says a television channel, which repeatedly telecast the scene but Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) denies it. The visuals show TDP chief raising his hand to beat a woman, snatching the mike from her and even hitting her on her arm to force her to sit down. The main opposition...
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