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Understanding the issues of
Sanitation workers in India
Safai Karmchari Diwas i.e.
types of salaries. Afterall, whether it is
Sanitation workers day is celebrated all
over the country on July 31st. Though
this is not an official day but this mark a
confirmed person or contract labour or
outsourced, all do 8 hours job but their
jobs and other benefits differ drastically.
historical aspect of the movement by
Mr Prem Prakash, who is fighting for
Safai Karmcharis for their rights and
the housing rights of his community in
how the government 'mishandle' it. On
Allahabad said that the Safai Karmchari
July 29th, 1957, Safai karmcharis in
Ayog has no teeth and should be disbanded.
Most of the people actually
Delhi had called for a strike asking the
government to fulfill their demands but
appointed in these commissions are
the government refused to listen.
worthless as they only satisfy their party
Instead, the municipal authorities in
needs and do not work for the people.
Delhi actually started recruiting the new
He wanted a new generation leadership
persons for the jobs. This was an
to emerge which has a futuristic vision
absolutely dictatorial and mischievous
of the community. He also spoke how
effort by the officials to break the unity
the government promised to pay Rs fifty
of the Safai Karmcharis. Tension grew
lakhs to all the Corona warriors but not
in the Panchkuiyan road area and in the
a single Safai Karmchari got it so far
police firing, a person named Bhoop
despite the fact that many of them have
Singh was killed. He was not the part of tion in other jobs of the government. It education as well as big companies. He Baba Saheb Ambedkar, we can not
died doing their duty on frontline.
the movement but had come to his sister's
house. His death resulted in further also get opportunity to excel in higher speak against the issue of privatisations women become part of our movement
is important that our children should blamed that the Dalit leaders rarely move ahead, he said. It is important that
Ms Nisha Parche spoke about the situation
in Maharashtra and the absence
tension in the area compelling the government
to accept the demands of the said that Ms Mayawati opened the door are issues as with privatisation reserva-
he said.
education, said Bhaggu Lal ji. He also and it is time they understand that these as without them we can not move ahead,
of government facilities. The Safai
Karmcharis are doing their job in the
Safai Karmcharis on July 31st. There of the Safai Karmcharis for the other tion is already being finished by the Activist Dheeraj Kumar said that
most difficult circumstances and taking
was not much known about this incident communities in Uttar Pradesh when the government. He also said that it is not political parties have not taken the community
seriously because despite its
the risk of their lives but the government
and political leadership of the day
except for the fact that some of the recruitment was done for the that everything is so negative in the
members of the community in Delhi Panchayats and as it had better salary, a community and warn against attempting presence all over the state, they have not
have remained completely silence on
used to remember this day as Bhoop large number of upper castes, OBCs and to create divisions against other Dalit given it fair representation. Dheeraj said
Singh Shahadat Diwas. The Safai
their plight. She also said that it is also
others applied for it, paid bribery and communities. He felt that speaking for that he was part of BSP but the party has
Karmchari Diwas, as it is known today,
time that community women are given
got the job. These other community persons
never do the manual work and sub-
Dalit community and already govern-
rarely bothered to
sub quota is not good as it will divide not really cared for the community and
is actually the contribution of
space in the social movement and political
parties so that their issues are
Ambedkarite author and scholar let their work to the Valmiki community ment sector has diminished hence we
give ticket to
Bhagwan Das ji since 1964 after he
reflected in the programmes and agenda.
Mr Ashaq Ali Wattal also joined
person and just sign on the register. must prepare for the private jobs too.
Valmiki community
leaders. He
formed Ambedkar Mission Society. Mr Shri Ashok Agyani was of
Bhagwan Dass was one of the most
from Jammu but due to difficult networking
conditions, he could not speak.
the view point that unless the
also informed
towering personality, an Ambedkarite community strengthen its By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
how various
who gave a new direction to this community
and pave the path of the com-
which is the traditional Muslim commu-
Ashaq Ali belong to Wattal community
own political clout nothing social and human rights activist
municipalities in
would happen. It is important
that we ask our children to look for Shri Jai Prakash Chaudhury asked
Fatehpur dis-
the district
munity towards Ambedkarism.
nity in Jammu and Kashmir engaged in
It is good to have this day celebrated
sanitation work and face a lot of discrimination.
other avenues than the government jobs for a different quota for the community
missed hundreds
and discuss the issue of the community
which are shrinking. Our political leaders
have not spoken on the issue of pri-
Atrocities Act must be implemented and government does not have a credible
and felt that SC-ST Prevention of of Safai Karmcharis from their job. The
and hence some of us decided to sit
You can listen to entire conversation
together and discuss the issue. During
moderated by Vidya Bhushan Rawat on
vatisation of jobs and selling of India'a used even with in the scheduled castes data related to the population of Safai
the time of Corona, the community is
youtube at the following link
asset by the current government. It is in case they practice untouchability. karmcharis as they say Uttar Pradesh
facing the big difficulty and they dont
important for us to speak up on serious According to him, there is caste discrimination
and untouchability with in manual scavenging which is highly con-
and human rights activist. He blogs
has merely 7400 families engaged in Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a social
get the respect. Mr Bhaggu Lal Valmiki,
issues that our community faces.
an activist from Jalaun district in
Unfortunately, others will not speak for the scheduled castes and it need to dealt testable figure. Dheeraj also raised the
Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, said that
at www.manukhsi.blogspot.com
us, he said. Ashok Agyani said that we strongly. He also spoke of bringing issue of contract labour as well as outsourced
people and asked why for one
the time has come for the community to
twitter @freetohumanity
must not ignore economic issues and women in the movement. Without
assert for their rights and seek reserva-
Email: vbrawat@gmail.com
speak against rampant privatisation of Buddhism and following the path of Dr kind of work, people are getting three
Court defers hearing against
Zardari, others till August 7
Islamabad : An accountability
court here has adjourned the hearing
of the fake accounts and mega money
laundering case filed against former
president Asif Ali Zardari and others
till August 7, Geo News reported on
Wednesday.
Last week, the accountability court
had deferred Asif Ali Zardari and his
sister Faryal Talpur's indictment in the
mega money laundering case.
Proceedings for the reference could
not be held on Friday as Judge Azam
Khan was not available for the hearing.
In October 2015, the anti-corruption
wing of the Federal Investigation
Agency (FIA) in Karachi received a
tip-off of suspicious intra-bank transactions
from the Summit Bank, Sindh
Bank and the United Bank Limited,
reported the news international.
The profiles of the account
holders did not match their earnings/income.
FIA authorities suspected
that these accounts were
being run by the Zardari Group
and Omni Group, amongst others.
The case dragged on until June
2018, when the Supreme Court
took suo moto notice of the fake
accounts and directed a Joint
Investigation Team (JIT) to probe
the matter.
The investigation team concluded
that 32 fake bank accounts
were being operated by 11 fake
entities to launder money from "kickbacks,
land grabbing and large scale
misappropriation of public funds."
4 arrested in HK by national
security unit police officers
Hong Kong : Hong Kongs new police
unit enforcing the national security law
imposed in the city by China, arrested
four student members of a pro-independence
group, it was reported on Thursday.
The arrests of the suspects, aged 16 to
21, on Wednesday marked the first such
crackdown on anti-government activists
not at the scene of street protests since the
legislation came into effect on June 30,
reports the South China Morning Post
(SCMP) newspaper. Police did not reveal
the suspects' identities, but images posted
online showed Tony Chung, one of the
former convenors of the group
Studentlocalism, being taken away in
handcuffs.
Studentlocalism was a pro-independence
group that was disbanded on June
30, hours before the Beijing-imposed
national security law came into effect,
banning acts of secession, subversion,
terrorism, and collusion with a foreign
country to endanger national security. In
a late Wednesday night press conference,
Senior Superintendent Steve Li of
the National Security Department under
the police force said the suspects' group
had recently declared the establishment
of a body to promote pro-independence
political ideals "using any means possible"
and build a "Republic of Hong
Kong".
Previous arrests under the national
security law have been made at protests
over slogan shouting and flag waving.
Earlier this month, a 23-year-old man
became the first person charged under the
new national security law for allegedly
riding into a group of policemen during a
protest while carrying a flag calling for
the liberation of Hong Kong.He was officially
charged with one count of inciting
secession and another of terrorism.