[Reader-list] Welfare of Dalits is mere lip service

A.K. Malik akmalik45 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 27 20:33:51 IST 2009


Hi All,
          Happened to read an article in today's Hindustan Times.Just wanted to share:
1. The Schedule Caste Commission, mandated by the Constitution of India to highlight Dalits' sufferings, has not filed its Report for the last four years.
2. The Reports are a single-point source of information on the conditions of Dalits and become Public only when they are tabled in Parliament.
3. The last Reports were filed in 2001-02, which was not tabled in Parliament and the next one in 2004-05.
Some extracts from the report:
a) Untouchability-banned under the Constitution-is rampant-45% of the cases coming from Andhra Pradesh alone.
b) 40% of the  nation's Scheduled Caste citizens are agricultural labourers have no land and work for others.
c) More than half of Dalit students drop out before class 8, the highest being in Bihar, Assam and West Bengal.
d) In many hostels built by the govt for the community, children don't  know how MILK tastes as food supplies meant for them never reach them.
and then there are data on rapes,sanitation etc.
My only concern where the money meant for SCs is going and who is cornering the reservation meant for SCs??

(A.K.MALIK)


      


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