DALIT ATROCITIES - 2005 - Indian Social Institute

Utthan Task Force demanded that the Governor take effective steps to check the violations of
rights being committed on Dalits by the State Government. The memorandum also demanded
reservation for Dalits in the private sector as privatisation was having its ill-effects on the
community. Later, Mr. Khurshid told reporters that the ruling coalition in the State was
increasingly getting trapped in its own moves and the courts would shortly expose the misdeeds.
Referring to the decision of the State Government to hold Panchayat elections, he said it was
necessary to hold free and fair elections than to hold them on time. ``Let them hold the elections,
we will use the Supreme Court to ensure that fairness and democracy prevailed,'' he added. (The
Hindu 28/7/05)
Dalit party calls for July 30 bandh (2)
CHENNAI: : The Puthiya Thamizhagam will organise rail and road roko on July 30 to demand
scrapping of the draft report of the delimitation commission on Lok Sabha and Assembly
constituencies in the State. It has also called for a "bandh" in the southern districts on the same
date, party president K. Krishnasamy told presspersons here on Wednesday. He alleged that the
report had done "injustice" to the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes, most backward classes
and the minority communities. As per the report, there would be no reserved Parliamentary
constituencies in the southern districts. Tenkasi and Pollachi would be made general
constituencies and Villupuram and Kancheepuram would be classified as reserved. As for
Assembly constituencies, he said areas where the SC/ST population was predominant would be
divided and attached to different constituencies. (The Hiindu 28/7/05)
Government accepts proposals on Scheduled Castes (2)
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government on Thursday accepted the recommendations of the House
Committee that all those migrant Scheduled Caste members whose castes were listed in the
Delhi Government list and fulfil the necessary conditions be given the caste certificate as original
residents of the Capital. Addressing a press conference, the Delhi Food and Supplies Minister,
Raj Kumar Chauhan, who also holds charge of SC/ST Welfare, said a House Committee was
constituted under the chairmanship of the Narela MLA, Charan Singh Kandera, to look into the
problems of SCs who migrated to Delhi after 1951. It has been recommended that any applicant
fulfilling any of the three conditions outlined by the Government be issued a caste certificate.
According to Mr. Chauhan, the SC members should be issued caste certificates as original
residents of Delhi and for this purpose attestation of the application by a Member of Parliament,
MLA, Councillor or Member of the SC/ST Welfare Boards should be accepted as proof of
genuineness of the applicant. The applicant should have been born in Delhi for which he or she
has to produce the birth certificate as evidence. He or she should have studied in Delhi for which
they have to produce the matriculation certificate or marks-sheet as proof or they should have
resided in Delhi for the last five years for which he or she has to produce domicile certificate or
any other proof of residence in Delhi. Mr. Chauhan said verification of the parent's certificate from
the original issuing authority should be done away with unless there was a specific complaint
against the applicant, giving rise to serious doubts about genuineness or the original certificate.
(The Hindu 29/7/05)
AUGUST 2005
Dalit women to get priority (2)
Madurai, Aug. 7: While advocating dalit liberation, it is imperative that the liberation of dalit
women should be given priority, because they bore the brunt of atrocities against the community,
said S. Karuppiah, secretary of the Village Education Service Association (VESA). Briefing
mediapersons on the three-day national conference hosted by the Dalit Intellectual Collective,
Delhi, in association with Vikas Adhyan Kendra, Mumbai, and VESA held in Kerala recently, he
said dalit women were also human beings who needed all respect and dignity from society. But
they were being treated as commercial commodities by the men. Though women from the socalled
upper caste also faced many problems, the sufferings of the dalit women were something
of greater magnitude, he said. He said the sufferings of dalit women were threefold — caste,
class and male chauvinism. The conference highlighted that the dalit women should have the