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Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Subject: [PMARC] Dalits Media watch - News Updates 08.03.10
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Dalits Media watch
News Updates 09.03.10
No light at end of tunnel - Express Buzz
Maya demands quota for SC/ST women - The Times Of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maya-demands-quota-for-SC/ST-women/articleshow/5656143.cms
"Distribute encroached land to Dalits" - The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/08/stories/2010030854910400.htm
Express Buzz
No light at end of tunnel
KANCHEEPURAM: For about a hundred women of the "people of darkness" aka Irulas, the 100th International Women's Day is anything but enlightening.
Their plea is just for a sheet of community certificate that would enable their children to complete schooling, and then move on to other greener pastures of modern living. But their repeated pleas have fallen on the deaf ears of district administration despite weekly representations for years together.
When modernisation made inroads into their forest settlements, Irulars shifted from forest areas to places around Kancheepuram and Uthiramerur belt in the last decade. Since then, most of them have become bonded labourers to rice mills and stone quarries after indebting themselves to a paltry sum of a few thousand rupees. As a result, they have long been tied down in a catch-22 situation. Their meagre wages would not allow them two square meals a day, leave alone repaying the debt to set themselves free. Recently, about 50 Stella Mary's students of social work found to their chagrin that those of the Irulas bound within the walls of a rice mill sold their wages of paddy outside to get the one-rupee-per-kilo PDS rice.
According to this erstwhile community of snakecatchers, the modern administrative society is too poisonous. Even after 15 of their tribe were released from bondage at a stone quarry by the State in July 2008 the administration is not ready to certify them that they are Irulas.
One of the liberated, Dhanabakkiyam (40) of Kunnavakkam village in Uthiramerur taluk, "who has been declared free of all her obligation and debt liabilities" told Express here that "though the liberation document categorically says that we are Irulas, the administration does not issue one." Fr Martin said that administration is wary of issuing the certificates because once that is done, the tribesmen could not only sue their employers under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, but also the mills would lose the guaranteed manpower.
The Times Of India
Maya demands quota for SC/ST women
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maya-demands-quota-for-SC/ST-women/articleshow/5656143.cms
TNN, Mar 8, 2010, 05.45am IST
LUCKNOW: BSP supremo Mayawati does not support the Women's Reservation Bill in its present form. She has sought an amendment in the bill to include a quota for SC/ST women within the proposed 33% quota for women in parliamentary and state assembly seats.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Maya has stated that she supports equal participation of women in every sector including politics but in the Women's Reservation Bill there should be a quota for SC/ST women. Significantly, while Mayawati said BSP will not support the bill in its present state, she has not made it clear whether BSP MPs will vote against the bill in the Parliament or abstain.
Briefing mediapersons about the letter, BSP general secretary SC Mishra told reporters on Sunday evening that chief minister has drawn PM's attention towards the fact that women, particularly those belonging to SC/ST, are educationally, economically and socially backward. The Women's Reservation Bill proposes 33% horizontal reservation for SC/ST women in the constituencies already reserved for SC/ST. However, BSP wants that seats reserved for SC/ST should not be touched and a quota for SC/ST women be provided within the 33% quota proposed for women in the bill, Mishra explained.
Maya in her letter has stressed on political empowerment of women from all sections of society and this, she added, can be achieved only when there is a provision for quota within quota for SC/ST women and a separate provision for upper caste, backward classes and Muslim women coming from economically weak families
The Hindu
"Distribute encroached land to Dalits"
http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/08/stories/2010030854910400.htm
Special Correspondent
| CPI(M) leader's plea on Dinakaran's lands |
Points out that Survey of India has already submitted its report
Recalls various struggles launched by party, farmers' group
CHENNAI: CPI(M) State secretary G. Ramakrishnan on Sunday urged the State government to distribute to landless Dalits the 'poromboke' lands encroached by Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran and his family members.
In a statement here, Mr. Ramakrishnan pointed out that the Survey of India had already submitted its report essentially agreeing with the findings of the Tiruvallur Collector that Mr. Dinakaran and his family members had encroached 199.53 acres of poromboke lands in Kaverirajapuram.
Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily had handed over the report to Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan.
Recalling various struggles launched by the party and Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam to retrieve the lands, Mr. Ramakrishnan said the government should take immediate steps to distribute the lands to the Dalits.
--.Arun Khote
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