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Panchayat has prepared a Rs. 48-lakh action plan to take up works in the village under the MahatmaGandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act so that those in need work could be offered jobs. Thisis to discourage poor people from opting to work for landlords at meagre salaries. Officials have identified51 families to sanction toilets and 53 families for providing houses under different schemes. Also, eightyouths have been chosen for training in computer usage, six for driving training and eight for training insewing. Mr. Nagaraj said Dalits of the village were very poor. “Many children had discontinued studies tohelp their parents earn a living. They are all now studying. The department will bear their education fee,”he said. V. Anbukkumar, Deputy Commissioner of Hassan, has constituted a committee under thechairmanship of Srividya, Assistant Commissioner of Sakleshpur subdivision, to file a report on theprevalence of bonded labour system in Ragimaruru. The committee has held meetings with residents ofthe village. So far, 28 Dalits have appeared before the committee. The committee will submit a reportafter completing its inquiry. (The Hindu 13/9/13)1 arrested for driving minor dalit girl to immolate self in Haryana (2)KAITHAL: A youth has been arrested on Monday for allegedly driving a 14-year-old dalit girl to immolateherself in Haryana's Kaithal district. The Girl immolated herself in Kalayat on Sunday. A case has beenregistered against Amit Kumar (19) and Vikram (17) for allegedly harassing the victim. Both the accusedare also from the Dalit community. The girl set herself on fire after pouring kerosene over her on Sundayevening. She died on way to hospital. A team from the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes(NCSC) visited Kalayat on Monday accompanied by the Kaithal superintendent of police, to look into thedetails of the incident and seek quick action against those responsible for it. Assuring support to thefamily members of the victim, NCSC team also demanded compensation for them. The scheduledcommission director Raj Kumar Channena, who visited the girl's family, said, "We met the familymembers and assured them of proper action the accused. We also promised to provide them policeprotection for their safety. I have asked the Kaithal SP to ensure arrest of the accused and also givesecurity cover to the victim's family." Kaithal SP Kuldeep Yadav said, "A case against the accused hasbeen registered and Amit has been arrested. We hope to nab Vikram soon. As told by NCSC director,police protection will be given to the family of the girl on priority." The girl's father has mentioned in hiscomplaint to the police that both the accused used to harass his daughter. "On being pressured by thevillagers, the boys stopped teasing her for a while. But they again started tormenting her due to which mydaughter got depressed and killed herself as she was not able to bear the humiliation at being molestedeveryday," he alleged. (Times of India 17/9/13)Steady rise in inter-caste marriages involving dalits (2)NEW DELHI: Maharashtra has notched a four-fold increase in inter-caste marriages involving dalits, afigure that points to liberalizing social values if not a radical makeover. The growing inter-caste marriagesin Maharashtra tie in with the jump in national figures. According to figures available with the Centre, thenumber of people tying the knot with dalits is constantly going up, touching 9,623 in 2012 from 7,617 in2011 and 7,148 in 2010. While the national statistics are on the up, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh andKerala appear to be the top examples in the phenomenon long suggested by social reformers as the besttool to weaken the barriers of caste segregation. To encourage the trend, the Centre pays up to Rs50,000 to each inter-caste couple that has one spouse as dalit. Maharashtra seems to be ahead of otherstates in taking to the liberal tradition, with 2,296 marriages between dalits and non-dalits in 2012. Therise appears sharp when compared with the meager 563 marriages in 2011 and 628 in 2010. In fact, thestate has made a rally after the tally fell to three figures from 1,050 in 2009 and 1,017 in 2008. Thenumbers, though small when compared to the population, are only of couples that come forward todeclare the marriage and claim the incentive -- obviously belonging to lower-middle class strata.Observers view it as a "representative trend". K Raju, former IAS officer and head of the ScheduledCastes cell of Congress, said, "It is a positive sign that indicates greater sense of acceptance of inter-
caste marriages and waning prejudices. It is one of the ways to make society casteless. It should begiven robust support systems." Andhra is top of the heap with 3,040 marriages in 2012, compared to1,805 in 2011 and 1,641 in 2010. Kerala clocked 2,454 inter-caste marriages, a healthy jump from 1,040,1,000 and 996 in the previous three years. Interestingly, Tamil Nadu in 2011 notched 2,750 marriages, upfrom 2,356 in 2010. The state witnessed violence in July after a dalit boy from Dharmapuri married aVanniyar-OBC girl, a love affair that ended in social unrest with groom Ilavarasan found dead on therailway tracks in mysterious circumstances. The stats appear to bear out the trend of caste hostility infeudal societies - with Haryana reporting the highest annual figure of 160, Himachal Pradesh (232),Madhya Pradesh (232), Punjab (252) and Rajasthan (130) over the last five years. (Times of India19/9/13)After long struggle, dalits draw water from village tank (2)VIRUDHUNAGAR: Two years after a water tank was built in the village, the dalits of V Muthulingapuramvillage in Virudhunagar district managed to draw water from the tank for bathing on Saturday. For the pasttwo years, non-dalits of the village were preventing the dalits from bathing in the tank water. After a seriesof initiatives by the Untouchability Eradtication Front, the dalits broke the virtual wall to the tank andsucceeded in their struggle. Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front's (TNUEF) Virudhunagar districtsecretary S Gnanaguru said that the water tank was built with the panchayat funds in 2011-12. Thevillage has about 70 dalit families and 400 non-dalit families. When the dalits went to the tank to take bathsoon after it was built, the non-dalit youth prevented them. When dalits insisted on taking bath, some ofthe non-dalits went to the extent of emptying the tank. The issue was brought to the light of the TNUEFwhen they went on a field visit to the villages of Virudhunagar. Subsequently, TNUEF announced that itwould stage a protest on September 30 and would ensure dalits's rights to take bath with the tank water.However, district administration officials called for a peace meeting in the village where representatives ofdalits and no-dalits participated. The officials warned non-dalits of stern action for following suchdiscriminatory practices and instructed them not to obstruct dalits from using the water tank. Soon afterthe peace talk, a group of dalit youth went to the tank and took bath, celebrating the success of their twoyear-longstruggle. During the peace meeting, the dalits also alleged that there was no proper road to thecrematorium and that the water from borewell meant for their residences was being tapped by non- dalits.The officials immediately said that road to the crematorium would be laid and that measures to diganother borewell would be taken. (Pioneer 21/9/13)After long struggle, dalits draw water from village tank (2)VIRUDHUNAGAR: Two years after a water tank was built in the village, the dalits of V Muthulingapuramvillage in Virudhunagar district managed to draw water from the tank for bathing on Saturday. For the pasttwo years, non-dalits of the village were preventing the dalits from bathing in the tank water. After a seriesof initiatives by the Untouchability Eradtication Front, the dalits broke the virtual wall to the tank andsucceeded in their struggle. Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front's (TNUEF) Virudhunagar districtsecretary S Gnanaguru said that the water tank was built with the panchayat funds in 2011-12. Thevillage has about 70 dalit families and 400 non-dalit families. When the dalits went to the tank to take bathsoon after it was built, the non-dalit youth prevented them. When dalits insisted on taking bath, some ofthe non-dalits went to the extent of emptying the tank. The issue was brought to the light of the TNUEFwhen they went on a field visit to the villages of Virudhunagar. Subsequently, TNUEF announced that itwould stage a protest on September 30 and would ensure dalits's rights to take bath with the tank water.However, district administration officials called for a peace meeting in the village where representatives ofdalits and no-dalits participated. The officials warned non-dalits of stern action for following suchdiscriminatory practices and instructed them not to obstruct dalits from using the water tank. Soon afterthe peace talk, a group of dalit youth went to the tank and took bath, celebrating the success of their twoyear-longstruggle. During the peace meeting, the dalits also alleged that there was no proper road to the
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