R OHTAK: Despite the claims by the Indian Government the discrimination continues as Dalits are stopped from performing pooja and celebrating Holi. Schedule Caste (SC) families were stopped from performing Holi pooja and assaulted allegedly by the members of upper caste at Jahangirpur village of Jhajjar district of Haryana. Police have started investigation into the matter but no case […]
EWTN News, March 19, 2013 By Hillary Senour A human rights activist emphasized her hope that Americans will fight the international crisis of trafficking by raising awareness and supporting international schools to help educate at-risk youth. Dr. Ana Steele, a former Harvard faculty and current president of the Dalit Freedom Network, USA, said she believes […]
The great achievement of Sir Ganga Ram is Gangapur agricultural project writes Sir Edward Mclegan Lieutenant governor of the Punjab who visited the Farm in 1920. A special feature of the whole of the Gangapur enterprises was extent to which scientific invention and machinery was used to make the project a gigantic success. […]
Lucknow, Novermber, 1, 2010 : The pattern of land distribution has rendered rural landscape of UP disfavourable for farming. The precursor for this is the fragmentation of cultivable land into a large number of `small landholdings’. The process set under the demographic pressure, has caused marginalisation of a vast majority of farmers and posed a severe […]
Caste-based discrimination maybe abolished by law in India but it remains a major cause why backward classes, especially the Dalits, remain confined to menial tasks like manual scavenging and removal of dead animals, a latest report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on discrimination in the job sector has said. Affirmative action has been able […]
