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Date: Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:23 PM
Subject: [PMARC] PMARC : Dalits Media Watch - News Updates 22.04.10
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News Updates 22.04.10
Physically-challenged Dalit girl burnt alive in Haryana - The Times Of India
RR Patil rules out tainted villages from contest - DNA
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_rr-patil-rules-out-tainted-villages-from-contest_1374106
Government urged to fill SC, ST backlog posts - The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/22/stories/2010042262560600.htm
Take note of atrocities against dalits, say MPs - PTI
http://www.ptinews.com/news/620919_Take-note-of-atrocities-against-dalits--say-MPs
'Elite' policy jab at Sibal - The Telegraph
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100422/jsp/nation/story_12367515.jsp
Dalits all set to become priests - The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/21/stories/2010042152300300.htm
Congress draws flak for ignoring Dalit leaders - The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/21/stories/2010042156980300.htm
The Times Of India
Physically-challenged Dalit girl burnt alive in Haryana
PTI, Apr 21, 2010, 06.47pm IST
CHANDIGARH: A physically challenged girl was burnt alive and her father received serious burn injuries when some persons set afire houses belonging to dalits in a village in Haryana's Hisar district on Wednesday.
Eighteen-year-old Suman was charred to death while her father Tara Chand, 70, suffered 90 per cent burns, official sources said adding the incident happened in Mirchpur village.
Members of a particular community raided the village and set afire some 12 to 15 dalit houses, they said.
Old enmity between the two communities coupled with flaring up of the tension in the past few days led to today's incident, the sources said.
A few days back, some members of a community allegedly passed some objectionable remarks on dalit women.
This provoked retaliation from the dalits who roughed up some youths of the rival community, villagers said.
A physically challenged girl was burnt alive when some persons set on fire dalit houses, Hisar Deputy Commissioner O P Sheron told PTI by telephone.
Asked how many houses were torched, he said "we are yet to get full details."
He said a case under various sections of the IPC had been registered against some persons and promised strict action against the guilty. A large posse of policemen were deployed in the village where tension ran high.
Related Stories:
Dalit houses torched in Hisar, polio-stricken girl and father killed - Indian Express
Dalit girl, father killed as mob sets houses afire - The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/22/stories/2010042262560600.htm
DNA
RR Patil rules out tainted villages from contest
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_rr-patil-rules-out-tainted-villages-from-contest_1374106
Kiran Tare / DNA
Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:19 IST
Mumbai: Home minister RR Patil announced on Wednesday in the legislative council that villages with a background of communal riots would not be allowed to participate in the competition for dispute-free villages.
His announcement has significance in the wake of the first award for dispute-free village to Khairlanji in Bhandara district. The tiny village had seen a massacre of four people in 2006.
Patil's announcement came after NCP member Ram Pandangale raised objection to the award given to Khairlanji for being a dispute-free village. "It is a shame that the government selected a village for this award which saw a massacre of dalits," Pandangale said.
He even demanded action against the collector and the guardian minister of Bhandara. Pandangale got support from ruling as well as opposition members.
The Hindu
Government urged to fill SC, ST backlog posts
http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/22/stories/2010042262560600.htm
Staff Reporter
| Only Government can help these sections, says former MLC |
Bangalore:L. Hanumanthappa, writer and former MLC, has urged the State Government to fill the SC, ST backlog posts in all departments, pending for the past several years.
He was speaking at the Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations at the KSTDC auditorium at Khanija Bhavan here on Wednesday. As many as 17,000 backlog posts have been created in various departments in the past five years.
However, only 14,000 posts have been filled. Despite repeated requests, the governments had not taken measures to fill the posts, he added.
Posts should be filled on priority and promotion should be given to those belonging to SC, ST communities. In the past five years, the State Government had created only five lakh jobs and the private sector 15 lakh.
Jobs for SC, STs and policies to uplift the deprived sections of society could not be expected from the private sector. Only the Government could that, Mr. Hanumanthappa said.
He suggested that SC, ST unions adopt children of these communities. SC, ST associations should look after the education to the deprived children.
Minister for Social Welfare D. Sudhakar andMinister for Women and Child Development P.M. Narendra Swamy spoke.
KSTDC SC, ST Employees Welfare Association and KSTDC Employees' Union had organised the function.
PTI
Take note of atrocities against dalits, say MPs
http://www.ptinews.com/news/620919_Take-note-of-atrocities-against-dalits--say-MPs
New Delhi, Apr 22 (PTI) Issues relating to dalits and scheduled castes were today raised in the Lok Sabha with BJP demanding that the Centre take note of growing cases of atrocities against them, particularly in Haryana.
Virender Kashyap (BJP) referred to a recent incident in Haryana where an entire village of dalits was burnt down and a handicapped girl killed.
He said several such incidents had taken place in the state in the past few years.
"Even the administration does not take any timely action to prevent them," he rued.
"Inaction by the police" in preventing the recent incident reflects the law and order situation in Haryana, he said, adding that similar incidents were taking place in other states also.
Kashyap, who demanded that the Centre should take notice of such cases, got immediate support from different sections of the House, including some Congress members.
The Telegraph
'Elite' policy jab at Sibal
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100422/jsp/nation/story_12367515.jsp
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi, April 21: Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal today faced criticism from his own party MPs for two school policy decisions that some dubbed elitist.
The MPs from the Congress joined members of the BSP, Janata Dal (United) and the RJD in questioning government funding for Sanskriti School, run privately in the capital by wives of top central bureaucrats, in the Lok Sabha.
The MPs also pilloried Sibal for his decision to scrap a discretionary quota for the HRD minister and MPs in Kendriya Vidyalayas.
The opposition came even as the ministry plans to seek cabinet approval tomorrow for starting 1,000 government-sponsored model schools in backward districts.
The Congress MP from Latur, Jaywantrao Awale, fired the first salvo through a starred question where he asked Sibal to explain whether Sanskriti was ensuring admission of disadvantaged children from the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
Sibal responded that while the school did not have quotas for SC/ST students, it did admit several economically weak pupils and had also "adopted" a neighbourhood cluster of shanties.
But BSP leader Dara Singh Chauhan asked: "When the Centre talks about education, it says it doesn't have enough funds. Then why is it financially supporting an elite private school?"
The school principally caters to wards of IAS officers who do not wish to send their children to the Kendriya Vidyalayas.
The next starred question, also for Sibal, ironically pertained to KVs, which were meant for wards of all government employees with transferable jobs, but which are today preferred mostly only by non-IAS staff. The KVs routinely outperform private schools in board examinations for Classes X and XII.
The minister had a discretionary quota under which he could nominate 1,400 students to the KVs each year. Each MP could nominate two students. The quota seats were principally used by MPs and ministers to nominate wards of workers and economically weak aides who were not officially part of the government. But Sibal scrapped the quotas last month.
The Hindu
Dalits all set to become priests
http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/21/stories/2010042152300300.htm
Staff Reporter
| TTD's programme aimed at checking religious conversions |
The TTD has so far trained 500 non-Brahmins in 'idol worship'
The programme is aimed at popularising sanatana Hindu dharma
TIRUPATI: After successfully conducting training programmes in 'priesthood' to Girijans (Scheduled Tribes) and Matsyakaras (fishermen), the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has now turned its eye to yet another socially-deprived section, the Dalits.
Third batch
By strengthening the 'weak spiritual links' of the sections hitherto uncared for, the TTD seeks to propagate 'Hindu tattva' among the oppressed sections and wean them away from religious conversions. The third batch of training classes in 'Idol worship' for members of the Dalit community started at the Sri Venkateswara Employees Training Academy (SVETA) premises, the TTD's training and development arm, here on Tuesday.
Joint Executive Officer N. Yuvaraj, who inaugurated the programme, addressed the trainees on the TTD's endeavour to draw the socially-neglected sections back into the fold of spiritualism. He exhorted them to focus not only on the religious aspects they were learning, but also on social etiquette and a healthy living style, so as to lead a life free of vices.
Objective
"The objective is to popularise and spread Sanatana Hindu Dharma and inspire the weaker sections to become partners in its propagation", Dr. Yuvaraj noted, appealing to the participants to take proper care of the folk temples in their vicinity and involve the local community in spreading the message of devotion.
SVETA Director Bhuman S.Reddy said that the number of non-Brahmin 'Archakas' trained by the TTD thus far was close to 500.
The Hindu
Congress draws flak for ignoring Dalit leaders
http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/21/stories/2010042156980300.htm
Special Correspondent
LUCKNOW: Already under fire for no mention of Bhimrao Ambedkar and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in an eight-page booklet showcasing 125 years of the party, the Congress has now been subjected to a scathing attack by the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh. The booklet was released by Rahul Gandhi on April 14 during the launch of 10 Congress yatras marking Dr. Ambedkar's birth anniversary.
Condemning the "error", the president of the State unit of BSP, Swami Prasad Maurya, said on Tuesday that the Congress Party's love for the Dalits and minorities was an eyewash. Mr. Maurya said by ignoring Dr. Ambedkar, Jagjivan Ram, who was a Dalit leader of the Congress, and Maulana Azad, the booklet was an effort to glorify the achievements of the Nehru-Gandhi family. Mr. Maurya said the booklet had vindicated Chief Minister Mayawati's view that the Congress had always ignored the Dalit leaders. The booklet has exposed the Congress' love for Dalits, Mr. Maurya added.
Hollowness
In a statement released here, the UP BSP president saw a political motive in the virtues of one family being extolled in the booklet, which contains no mention of a Dalit leader or that of the minority community. This was despite the fact that the booklet was released by Mr. Gandhi on Ambedkar "jayanti". It underlined the hollowness of the Congress Party's claim, Mr. Maurya added.
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