-PTI The Gujarat government should build separate crematoriums for Dalits in those villages where the community is still facing problems, the scheduled castes Welfare Committee of the Gujarat Assembly has suggested. The Assembly panel, which serves as the watchdog of welfare schemes being run by various government departments for SCs in Gujarat, also recommended reservation system for the recruitment in self financed colleges in Gujarat. These suggestions were made in two of the...

-IANS   Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has so far granted 4.09 lakh individual titles and community titles under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, a state minister said on Friday. “While 4,03,760 individual titles have been distributed, 5,891 community titles have been settled under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006,” scheduled castes and Scheduled Tribes Development Minister Lal Bihari Himirika told the assembly. The state government...

-The Indian Express FOR THE second year running, the annual report published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on accidental deaths and suicides does not include data compiled under caste and religion. And, once again, the report was released before elections in a state where caste equations were crucial. In 2014, the NCRB had, for the first time, collated data on suicides based on religion and caste groups. While the report was...

  Amidst concerns over budgetary cuts in social sector spending, a recent statement from Shri Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State for Planning reveals that unemployment rate has risen much sharper among the scheduled castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) vis-à-vis the overall population. Replying to a starred question by Shri PL Punia regarding Human Development Index (HDI) of SCs and STs, the Minister of State for Planning said on 6 February,...

-The Indian Express Overall unemployment has increased by approximately 31 per cent in the last 5 years. New Delhi: THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate has increased by more than 56 per cent among scheduled castes, by 69 per cent among Schedules Tribe communities, and nearly 62 per cent among Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the last five years, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday. Overall unemployment has increased by approximately 31 per...