-PTI Vigilante groups target Dalits as they are "soft targets" while refraining from confronting those involved in cow slaughter: fact finding team. Ahmedabad: A fact finding team which visited Gujarat’s Una town in connection with the brutal assault of Dalits, has claimed to have found a new trend among ‘cow vigilantes’ to show bravado by making a particular Dalit community as their “soft target”. The incident of beating up of seven Dalit youths...
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Gujarat has history of atrocities and discrimination against Dalits
-The Hindu Most Dalits are not allowed entry into temples in villages; common crematoriums too are out of bounds to them, says activist. Ahmedabad: For the last three days, Gujarat’s Dalit community has been seething with anger over the public flogging of a group of Dalits who were skinning a dead cow in Mota Samadhiyala, a village near Una town in Saurashtra region on July 11. Four of them were brutally beaten with...
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-The Times of India Bhopal: Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh that faced three years of successive drought and Farmer Suicides, is now waterlogged following three days of rainfall. All districts of the backward region now face another extremity of weather - floods. All the water bodies which were empty till Wednesday, are overflowing. Thousands of people are marooned at different locations in the three districts of Tikamgarh, Damoh and Sagar because of...
More »Parched Land. Farmer Suicides. Forced Migration: Drought Is Crippling Rural India -Vivek Singh
-HuffingtonPost.com In Bundelkhand, people struggle for every drop of water they can find. TIKAMGARH DISTRICT: For years, Lakshman Pal, 28, planted wheat and tended to his small field here. Each season, he hoped for rain. He looked up at the sky and waited for the showers that normally came. But for the past two years, they’ve hardly come at all. His crops eventually withered and died, crumbling to dust. In early May, Pal...
More »Only 49 days of work under MGNREGS a record: Chaudhury Birender Singh -Elizabeth Roche
-Livemint.com Report says only 10.1% of the total households that had been provided employment had been able to complete 100 days of work as stipulated by the MGNREGA New Delhi: The rural job guarantee programme provided only 49 days of work on an average across the country in 2015-16 when drought in several states affected farm output and crimped income. Rural development minister Chaudhary Birender Singh, though, highlighted this number as a...
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