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killed on March 30 (Saturday)." Notably, tension gripped Madina village, 18 km from here on the Hisar-Delhi road, after two members of the Dalit community were shot dead, while injuring a third one, identifiedas Sandeep, by three motorcycle-borne youths. One Amit Kumar (in twenties) was arrested by the policefrom a village in Jind on Monday. (Hindustan Times 3/4/13)Verka demands report on allegations of discrimination against Dalits (2)Bathinda: National SC/ST Commission vice-chairman Raj Kumar Verka has demanded the action-takenreport from the district administration on the alleged discrimination against Dalits at a gurdwara atLehrakhana village in the district. Verka was here to discuss the status of the SC/ST welfare schemesand programmes running in the district with the administration. "This issue was not discussed at themeeting. The district authorities did not inform me of the case," Verka said at a press conference after themeeting held with deputy commissioner KK Yadav, SSP Ravcharan Singh Brar and other district officials."I have come to know about this case from the media. I will serve a seven-day notice on the Bathinda DCand SSP to submit the action-taken report on the issue," said Verka. Tension had mounted at Lehrakhanavillage after Dalits were allegedly discriminated against. Sitting Congress MLA from Tarn Taran, Verkawas also not happy with the district administration for presenting a "half-hearted" report on the status ofcases registered under the SC/ST Act. "They provided an incomplete report on the status of casesregistered under the SC/ST Act. I have told them to provide me details of the conviction rate in thesecases." Verka said, "The cases of exploitation of Dalits have been increasing in the state. The Punjabgovernment has not been running any schemes for Dalits. They are also sending back the money sent bythe Centre for constructing hostels for Dalit students." On the status of reservation in the state, Verkasaid, "Punjab has the highest Dalit population in India. But the state government is not providing jobs inthat ratio. Only 13% posts under reservation have been filled in the state whereas at least 33% suchposts should be filled." (Hindustan Times 5/4/13)Dalit minor girl raped in Bhiwani (2)ROHTAK: Police arrested an upper-caste man on Sunday for allegedly raping a minor dalit girl inHaryana's Bhiwani district. The 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped on the night of April 3 but she keptquiet about it till April 6. The police registered a case against Zile Singh (32) who owns a shop in thevillage on Saturday night and arrested him on Sunday. The victim had gone out of her house on April 3when Singh took her to a nearby abandoned house and allegedly raped her. He kept the girl with himovernight and released her in the morning, according to the police FIR. She returned home before otherfamily members woke up and did not tell anyone. But her family suspected that something wrong hadhappened with her after they noticed change in her behaviour. She finally told them about the rape onSaturday evening. A police officer said that the victim with her family filed a complaint on Saturday afterwhich they registered a case against Singh. Singh will be produced in the court on Monday, the officersaid. (Times of India 8/4/13)CITU to fight for dalits and tribals (2)KANNUR: The CITU has vowed to take up the issues of the dalits, tribals and the oppressed, A KPadmanabhan, the newly elected national president of the CITU has said. “Dalits and tribals are the worstoppressed and are driven away from their land and habitats by multinational companies. “In many states,tribal people are on the warpath for survival. “The union will take up their cause and will form a widerplatform of trade unions in their defence. Whole workers will fight for the tribals and it will be a massstruggle,” Padmanabhan added. Delegates from Tamil Nadu have reported that 84 types of untouchabilityare being practised in the state even now. And various organisations, under a common platform, arefighting against this. The Centre for Indian Trade Union will take a leading role in the struggle againstuntouchability and social oppression, Padmanabhan said. The neo-liberal policies of the government willrender job reservation redundant, the conference observed. “What is the use of job reservations when
employment generation itself is in peril,” wondered A K Padmanabhan, explaining the union’s stand onthe issue. As the government is backing off from its role as a major employer, reservation would servenone in the future. So, reservation should be implemented in all sectors, wherever jobs are created, theconference demanded. (Indian Express 9/4/13)In Modi’s Gujarat, no Narmada water for dalits (2)CHITALIYA (RAJKOT): In the villages of Jasdan taluka in drought-hit Saurashtra, dalit women prefer toremain silent. That's for the fear of the upper castes in a state whose chief minister Narendra Modi is busytrying to conjure up an eclectic image to subserve his perceived prime ministerial ambitions for 2014polls. "Those people (upper castes) will abuse us again if we speak," mumbled one of the women, only tobe given a warning look by the others. The water scarcity in Saurashtra is due to deficient rainfall, but thecalamity is man-made for the dalits. Members of the community claim they are not allowed access toNarmada water, the only source of drinking water, by upper caste members. Ironically, upper castefarmers have their own borewells and don't need Narmada water as much. The dalits in ten villages of thetaluka allege they are not even allowed to draw water from the main sump. "We have to listen to casteistremarks and are even threatened if we get close to the sump," said Jaya Makwana, who fetches waterunder scorching sun from a source 3km farther. The worst affected are villages of Chitaliya, Khadvavadi,Kanesara, Parevala, Jivapar, Nani Lakhavad, Kothi, Barvala and Devdhari. There are around 100 dalitfamilies in each village dominated by Kolis. Unable to bear both injustice and thirst, women from thesevillages recently approached the deputy collector with their tale of woes. But the women were allegedlythreatened on their return for taking up the issue with the authorities. "Should we remain thirsty becausewe are untouchables?" Makwana fumed. Narmada water in Chitaliya is so erratic that villagers would noteven get supply once a week. After the trip to the deputy collector's office, water is being released once infive days. But the dalits say the main sump is still off-limits for them while the small one doesn't get adrop. The sump in the dailt area of Kothi village was never connected with the Narmada pipeline. "Ouronly source was a hand-pump which went dry last month,'' said Maniben Makwana, 65, a dalit. "We arelooking into complaints of discrimination. We have also directed the water resources department toconnect hand-pumps to the pipeline," deputy collector R H Gadhavi said. (Times of India 10/4/13)Dalit woman killed in Andhra Pradesh , incident assumes political overtones (2)Guntur: The incident in which a Dalit woman was killed after she was allegedly roughed up and pushedunder the wheels of a speeding truck at Tenali town by drunk miscreants, has now assumed political andcaste overtones. B Susheela, a 45-year-old housewife paid with her life on Monday night when she triedto rescue her teenaged daughter, who is a B Tech student, after seven drunken motor mechanics agedbelow 20 years attempted to molest her. Susheela's husband, a municipal school teacher B Babu Raohas alleged that the police control room which is about 300 metres from the scene of the tragedy, did notrespond to the commotion and that the police inspector with whom a complaint was lodged, played apartisan role. All the seven persons have been arrested. The incident occurred when Susheela and herdaughter were returning home after shopping at around 10 pm, when the seven men who had just comeout of a liquor bar owned by an affluent and upper caste Congress leader, began heckling them. Thehousewife shouted at them, which infuriated the seven men who allegedly roughed her up and pushedher under the wheels of a speeding truck, police said. Due to the public outcry after television newschannels reported the incident, Guntur's Superintendent of Police, initiated damage control measures bytransferring the case to the Deputy Superintendent of Police and arresting the liquor bar owner's sonNagaraju. When the incident took place, neighbours and passersby reportedly remained passivespectators and did not even bother to extricate the injured woman from under the wheels of the truck untilher husband arrived, though observers have attributed it to the fear of hoodlooms of the notorious liquorbar owner, who is also a Congress leader. (Indian Express 11/4/13)
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