Dalits Media Watch
News Update 01.01.10
Report proposes more funds for SC/STs - The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/01/stories/2010010150940500.htm
Mahadalits to get money to buy land - The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/01/stories/2010010157840300.htm
Dalits 'beaten up' for touching deity parasol - Express Buzz
IGP orders probe into 'lapses' in Gujarat gangrape - Indian Express
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/IGP-orders-probe-into--lapses--in-Gujarat-gangrape/562127
The Hindu
Report proposes more funds for SC/STs
http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/01/stories/2010010150940500.htm
Special Correspondent
Bangalore: A report on the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Development 2009-10 has recommended increased allocation for the education of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students and opening of more schools in areas dominated by SC/ST people.
The report, which was prepared by Nehru Cha Olekar, MLA, was submitted to Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday.
It recommended several improvement in the training given to SC/ST candidates under various employment schemes of the Central and State governments. Candidates who failed to obtain degree certificates should be given quality training to give them job skills, the report said. For effective utilisation of funds sanctioned for the welfare of SC/STs, it suggested setting up a Special Planning Cell in each department to monitor utilisation of funds under welfare schemes. The Chief Secretary of the State should hold review meetings of each department every quarter to monitor the progress of the schemes, it said.
The Hindu
Mahadalits to get money to buy land
http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/01/stories/2010010157840300.htm
Patna: Poorest of the poor Mahadalit families in Bihar will be given Rs.20,000 to purchase homestead land under a housing scheme, official sources said on Thursday.
"All Mahadalit families in the State will be provided money to purchase three decimals of homestead land on mutual consent," sources in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's office here said. The decision was approved by the State cabinet also, they said.
A new life
Thousands of landless and homeless Dalits in Bihar see the decision as the beginning of a new life for them.
Nearly a month ago, Bihar had announced that over two lakh Mahadalit families would be given homestead land and that the State government would also help in constructing their dwellings.
Earlier, it was decided that the government would purchase land for Mahadalits. The Chief Minister had directed sub-divisional officers to identify government land that could be distributed among 2.16 lakh Mahadalit families in accordance with the Bihar Privileged Persons Homestead Tenancy Act.
But later it was decided that they would be provided with money to purchase a plot of homestead land.
A government commission set up two years ago for the welfare of certain Dalit groups, which are socially and educationally more backward than others, painted a bleak picture of their lives in its first interim report submitted a few months ago. — IANS
Express Buzz
Dalits 'beaten up' for touching deity parasol
MADURAI: Yet another case of unbridled atrocity against Dalits in a village in Madurai has been reported and police have belatedly filed a case.
The Dalits were allegedly assaulted and a woman from the community pushed into the gutters - the 'provocation' for this action was that a Dalit youth had touched the decorated parasol held above the idol of a deity during the temple festival.
The festival of Ayyappan temple in Uthangudi near Madurai is celebrated every year. The chariot bearing the idol of the Lord used to be taken around all streets of the village, except those in the Dalit area, claiming that the 'untouchables' were not fit to worship the deity.
This year the festival was celebrated on December 26 and the deity was taken in procession. Some people of high caste were holding aloft the decorated umbrella above the idol. One of the men holding the umbrella had asked a Dalit, Pratap (19), to hold the umbrella while he tied his dhoti.
When Pratap held the stem of the umbrella, a high caste man had pulled him out, abused and slapped him saying,"how dare you defile the sacred umbrella? Have you developed such courage?''.
Other Dalit youth who were witnessing the incident had tried to prevent this assault but they were also subjected to the same treatment. Other caste Hindus had also joined the rabble and beaten the Dalits.
The Dalits had fled from the place to avoid further attack. According to A Kadir, director of Evidence, a Madurai-based NGO which went to the village on a fact finding mission, that night about 30 caste Hindus armed with lethal weapons had entered the Dalit colony and broken open the door of Vinothkumar.
The mob had dragged Letchumy (21) wife of Arumugam and sister of Vinothkumar, who was pregnant and beaten her with chappals.
She was then pushed into the sewer and kicked.
Kadir said that the affected Dalits had lodged a complaint with the Othakadai police who had not filed a case. Therefore, the Dalits of the village and members of the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Party resorted to picketing on December 27, after which the police registered cases.
Letchumy's mother Rasammal had given a separate complaint about the molestation of her daughter and the atrocities she was subjected to.
Indian Express
IGP orders probe into 'lapses' in Gujarat gangrape
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/IGP-orders-probe-into--lapses--in-Gujarat-gangrape/562127
Friday , Jan 01, 2010 at 0342 hrs Ahmedabad:
The same day as The Indian Express reported how a Dalit girl's family had been fighting for justice 11 years after she was gangraped, allegedly by an MLA's relative, the Gujarat Police has ordered an inquiry.
Calling the case "disturbing", the state Inspector General of Police, SC/ST Cell, P C Thakur, has called for a probe into the "serious lapses" in the case.
While the girl, then 13, was raped in Vadodara's Mokshi village in 1998, the trial is still on in the concerned Sessions Court with witnesses yet to be examined. "Following The Indian Express report, we have instituted an inquiry into the matter. A very serious issue has been raised in the report, and we have ordered an inquiry so that action can be taken against any officer who has committed willful negligence in the case," IGP Thakur said, adding he had sent a letter to this effect to the concerned Range Deputy Inspector General of Police.
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.Arun Khote
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Re: [PMARC] Dalits Media Watch - News Update 01.01.10
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