BHOPAL: As many as 35 hostels are being constructed for quality education of scheduled caste girls this year in Madhya Pradesh. For this, scheduled castes welfare department has provisioned Rs 37 crore in its budget. Minister of state for scheduled castes welfare Harishankar Khatik has directed district officers to ensure construction of these buildings with […]
Thursday, 18 July 2013 BHUBANESWAR Thousands of Dalits and tribals living in the State are yet to get land rights, alleged social activists of various organisations while participating at a State-level meet on development and protection of land rights organised by the Odisha Dalit Adhikar Manch (ODAM) and the Odisha Jami Adhikar Abhijan (OJAA) here […]
TAMIL NADU DHARMAPURI, July 19, 2013 R. Arivanantham Village ostracises Vanniyar youth’s family for marryinga Dalit girl in Dharmapuri district Even before the district has fully recovered from the reverberations set off by the tragic end to the life of Dalit youth Ilavarasan after his inter-caste marriage, another couple is facing trouble. G. Suresh (31) […]
They opt for private plantations in neighboring States for more pay The district administration is finding it hard to enrol members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The wages under the scheme, which targets the uplift of the weaker segments, have not been revised. […]
Lalitpur, July 17: Secretary at the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development, Shanta Bahadur Shrestha, has spoken of the need of infusing consciousness among the members of the non-Dalit communities that caste discrimination is a social crime, for getting rid of the existing caste discrimination in society. Speaking at an interaction on the issue […]
COIMBATORE: Thirty-six year old M Ilavenil is still hopeful that he or his wife Santhi (30) may get a government job reserved, for those who marry outside their castes, before the cut-off age of 40. A resident of PN Pudur near Vadavalli in Coimbatore, Ilavenil is a graduate presently working with a building contractor. He […]
AJMER: A dalit groom rode a horse for his marriage procession defying threats from upper caste villagers for the first time under tight police security at Neemada village in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district on Friday night. Dalits are not allowed to ride a horse especially for marriage processions. Ranjeet Singh Berwa’s family had sought police help […]
HT Correspondent Chandigarh, The Punjab government has told all government and aided technical institutes in the state to build hostels for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) students in their respective institutions which are availing facilities provided by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Stating this here on Monday, an official spokesman said the AICTE […]
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that there is no caste of criminals. No caste will now be called criminal in the State. Recommendation will be sent to the Union Government to enlist 51 De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic castes as Schedule Tribes. Annual awards worth `1 lakh will be given for excellent work in […]
The Tamil Nadu government on Monday announced the constitution of a Commission of Inquiry to go into the cause of the death of Dharampuri Dalit youth E. Ilavarasan, whose body was found near a railway track behind the Dharmapuri Government Arts College on Thursday. The Commission of Inquiry would be headed by S.R. Singaravelu, former […]
