‘Untouchables’ Still Pressed to Work Disposing Human Waste
Indians from communities viewed as “untouchable” are often coerced into working as toilet cleaners who scrape feces out of primitive dry latrines by hand or collect waste from fields where villagers relieve themselves, according to a report published Monday by U.S. human-rights group Human Rights Watch. Hiring people for the practice dubbed “manual scavenging” has […]
Dalit farmers still in search of land allotted to them
RAICHUR: These landless Dalit families are still searching for their land allotted under the Land Ceiling Act. Paramesh, a Dalit farmer from Dongarampur village in Raichurtaluk, has been running from pillar to post for the last one year in Raichur to find his 2.26 acres of land that his father Jambappa had been allotted under […]
India’s ‘Untouchables’ Are Still Being Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand
They face violence, eviction and withheld wages if they do not take on the hazardous job of emptying private and public latrines The practice of forcing low-caste people in Indian communities to removeaccumulated human waste from latrines is continuing despite legal prohibitions and must be stopped, says a leading advocacy group. In a report released Monday, […]
41 Dalit leaders released from Sangrur jail
Sangrur :After two months in custody, the 41 Dalit leaders, who had been arrested by the police for attacking police personnel during the auction of the reserved common land in BaladKalan village of Bhawanigarh sub-division, were released from the jail here on Friday following court orders. The court of additional chief judicial magistrate Birender Singh […]
All in a name: discrimination against dalits continues because of the stiqma attacked to their ascribed names
Nepali Dalit movement is divided over the word Dalit itself. Time and again questions have been raised about the term and its connotations. While a sizeable majority believes it should be replaced, the NGOs working in the same field think that changing the term makes no sense. For the commoners, however, it must be said […]
Six Men Get 10 Years RI for Raping Dalit Girl
VELLORE: Four years after a 20-year-old Dalit girl was gang-raped by a gang of six youth, the District Special Sessions Court on Friday sentenced them to 10 years rigorous imprisonment (RI). Also, the court slapped a fine of `2,000 on five of them, who belong to the SC community, and `3000 on a youth belonging […]
BJP SC Morcha demands interest-free loans for Dalits
BANGALORE: BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) national Scheduled Castes (SC) Morcha president Sanjay Paswan demanded the State government provide interest-free loans to Dalits to help them become entrepreneurs. Speaking to presspersons after the inaugural session of a two-day executive committee meeting of the State BJP SC Morcha here on Saturday, Mr. Paswan suggested that the State government […]
Dalit organisations hold protest rally
GUNTUR: A delegation of all party leaders and dalitorganisations conducted a protest rally here on Wednesday against the High Court’s order on Tsundur massacre case in April acquitting all the persons pronounced as guilty by a special court. The collective show of strength and solidarity backing the decades long struggle for justice marked a new […]
Protest in Surpur seeking CID probe into Dalit’s murder
YADGIR:Nearly 6,000 protesters, including BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) workers and activists of pro-Dalit organisations, who came from various parts of Surpurtaluk, staged a symbolic protest near Gandhi Chowk in Surpur town in Yadgir district on Friday demanding a probe by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) into the murder of a Dalit in Pet Ammapur village on […]
Crimes against dalits rise 245% in last decade
CHANDIGARH: Crimes and atrocities against dalits in Haryana have gone up by about two-and-a-half times during 2004-2013, compared to 1994-2003 period. Figures complied by National Confederation of Dalit Organizations (NACDOR) from National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports suggest amanifold increase in the number of cases related to assault, murder and sexual assault of Dalit women, […]
