Re: [ZESTCaste] Fwd: Information needed

2009-07-13 Thread CHITTIBABU PADAVALA
Jai bheem Akhilesh,
One very good source to begin your search is with the following book which
is a very good over-view book(*People of India, National Series Vol. II: The
Scheduled Castes/K.S. Singh.* Revised edition. 1999, 1375 p., $66. ISBN
019564822-6.) There is an entry on Malas in this book. Not only that, nearly
all SC communities in the country are given brief treatment in this huge
book.
Best,
Chittibabu


On 12/07/2009, Siddhartha Kumar mailsiddharth...@gmail.com wrote:



 Hi,
 I am akhilesh , I belong to mala-christian(a converted dalit group of
 andhra) community.First of all I appreciate your effort in educating
 dalits about present happenings in the society.I often read your
 mails. I would like to know the economic,social and educational status
 of my community when compared to other dalits or backward castes in AP
 or any state in India.I know that my community is progressing quite
 well but i don`t have any evidence to prove it to myself .I hope you
 had lot of material about dalits so if at all you had any material in
 pdfs u can send me.Your help will be highly appreciated.
Thanking you

 With regards,

 Akhilesh.

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[ZESTCaste] Our Journey - How we know caste: please watch this video

2009-07-13 Thread Benjamin Kaila
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC3C2voZjrA

Friends,
I happen to see this video while browsing internet.
Please watch this video recorded by young researchers trying to understand the 
caste. The views expressed by the non Dalits in the video are exactly what I 
hear while talking to people when I was in India or now in US- striking 
similarities of outright denials. In my experience, the results are the same 
when you talk to an ignorant illiterate or highly educated living in a western 
society. They see reservations  (which is a big farce due to their ineffective 
implementation) and never see the social, economical, educational, and 
religious deprivations. They see them lazy, not the lack of opportunities. They 
see them as grabbers of opportunities, not their centuries of forceful 
oppression. 
While talking to whites about the discrimination they accorded to blacks till 
1950s, I do not see whites denying the problem so forcefully. There may be some 
like skinheads, KKKs, Aryan nationals, but they are not in mainstream. But I 
observe the contrary in case of Dalit issue Indian non Dalits. 
I wonder, when a society doesn’t want to recognize a problem, is there a 
solution to it? Is it ignorance? Is it living in a make believe world of their 
own making? Is it closing eyes to problems of others? Or is it the desire of 
keeping them as they were? I puzzle!
Thanks
Ben

 

 
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[ZESTCaste] Fw: Launching the website for our Dalit youth magazine 'Insight Young Voices'

2009-07-13 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
--- On Mon, 6/7/09, anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com wrote:

From: anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com
Subject: Launching the website for our Dalit youth magazine 'Insight
Young Voices'
To:
Date: Monday, 6 July, 2009, 12:13 AM


Dear friends,



Jaibheem



Insight Editorial Collective is pleased to inform you about the
launching of the website for our Dalit youth magazine 'Insight Young
Voices'.

- The URL for the sites are as follows:-

• http://insightyv.com/ - The main site will have the latest issues of
our magazine and will double up as an e-resource center for Dalit and
Tribal students.

• http://archive.insightyv.com/ - Top ten past issues of our magazine
like Caste and Gender, Caste and Nationalism, Caste and Atrocities
have been uploaded.

• http://blog.insightyv.com/ - We have also started a blog called
'Round Table' where our 22 member team will be posting their views,
analysis, creative writings on different contemporary issues.

- Through these sites we are trying to carry forward our magazine's
prime objective of creating platforms for Dalit and Tribal students to
articulate their views, contribute to the empowerment of our community
as well as fight against caste-based discrimination both inside as
well as outside the campuses.

- The Insight Editorial Collective is highly indebted to the Dalit
student group of IIT Mumbai for creating our websites and providing
all support for uploading the contents.

- We raise our financial support from within the community for all our
activities including printing of the magazine. Like all the other
small magazines it has been a very tough journey for us too. Therefore
next few issues of our magazine will only be available online and can
be read on our website. But we promise you that we will keep pushing
ourselves to create a sustainable model for our mag and come back with
printed version of our mag very soon.

- Nest issue of Insight Young Voices to be released on 10th July

In this issue we are carrying interviews of 12 noted Dalit
academicians, scholars, activists and religious leaders from different
parts of the country. These interviews have been taken by a Dalit
student group from TISS, Mumbai in collaboration with Insight
Editorial Collective with an objective of mapping the various
trajectories within the Dalit movement in last 25 years. The second
series of 13 more interviews with similar objective will be published
in the August 10th issue of our magazine.

We request our readers to visit our sites and provide us comments and
suggestions to improve our efforts.

Thanks and regards

Insight Editorial Collective
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Re: [ZESTCaste] Fwd: Information needed

2009-07-13 Thread Gail Omvedt
Dear Akhilesh,
I just recently wrote an article on Dalit Christians.  But I have little
solid data.  You could help in telling about your local conditions.  I'm
attaching the article,

in solidarity,

Gail

Moderator's Note: Pls find this file in the 'Files' section of this groups 
here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/files. The name of the file is 
'Dalit Christians'

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Siddhartha Kumar 
mailsiddharth...@gmail.com wrote:



 Hi,
 I am akhilesh , I belong to mala-christian(a converted dalit group of
 andhra) community.First of all I appreciate your effort in educating
 dalits about present happenings in the society.I often read your
 mails. I would like to know the economic,social and educational status
 of my community when compared to other dalits or backward castes in AP
 or any state in India.I know that my community is progressing quite
 well but i don`t have any evidence to prove it to myself .I hope you
 had lot of material about dalits so if at all you had any material in
 pdfs u can send me.Your help will be highly appreciated.
Thanking you

 With regards,

 Akhilesh.

 Moderator's Note: Members may want to respond to Akhilesh's request.





[ZESTCaste] New file uploaded to ZESTCaste

2009-07-13 Thread ZESTCaste

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[ZESTCaste] UPA failed to use Rs 72,500 crore for Dalits says a Study - is it not interesting?

2009-07-13 Thread Benjamin Kaila
Posted from http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=197.
FYI
Thanks
Benjamin
 
UPA failed to use Rs 72,500 crore for Dalits says a Study 
 
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) may wax eloquent about empowering the 
downtrodden, but in the last five years it has denied the Scheduled Castes 
(SCs) a whopping Rs.72,500 crore ($15.16 billion) that should have been 
earmarked for them under a special scheme.
This has been underlined by voluntary organisation National Campaign on Dalit 
Human Rights (NCDHR) after a study of India’s budget documents. Called the 
special component plan (SCP), the scheme was a strategy evolved way back in 
April 1975, envisaging that every central ministry must allocate funds from its 
annual plan for Dalits according to their population.
SCs today form 16.2 percent of India’s 1.1 billion population. Therefore, 
between 2005 and 2009, the Congress-led government should have set aside 
Rs.129,000 crore for Dalits. But as much as Rs.72,500 crore was not earmarked, 
the NCDHR has pointed out.
“The figures of allocation are a mute witness to the history of denial of 
exclusion. It is not only for the last five years; this trend is observed for 
the last 28 years since the inception of the special component plan in 
1979-80,” states the NCDHR.
It points to the allocations in the interim budget of the UPA government in 
February.
“Out of 75 ministries and their departments, only 16 have allocated funds under 
the SCP. Out of these, nine ministries have allocated token amounts below five 
percent. Labour and employment, science  technology, bio-technology, 
panchayati raj and textiles are some of the examples,” says the study.
But the NCDHR concedes that human resource development, social justice and 
empowerment, rural development, women and child development and health 
ministries did make allocations according to the Dalit population.
The SCP came into being in 1979-80 and only Rs.433 crore had been spent on SCs 
and Scheduled Tribes (STs) together in the 30 years before that.
According to the Planning Commission guidelines, these funds cannot be diverted 
for any other purpose.
The ruling Congress and its UPA allies that spoke of the common man in the run 
up to elections allocated Rs.15,280 crore for SCs in its interim budget in 
February while it should have set aside Rs.34,413 crore for this fiscal, says 
NCDHR.
“This is even lower than last year’s allocation,” points out the study.
“While the total increase in the plan outlay is 15.74 percent, it is 
unacceptable that at this critical time of financial crisis, the amount for the 
socially and economically vulnerable sections is drastically reduced. The 
amount denied is 55 percent this year!”
 
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[ZESTCaste] Mayawati delaying chargesheet in DA probe against her: CBI

2009-07-13 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS-India-Mayawati-delaying-chargesheet-in-DA-probe-against-her-CBI/articleshow/4769343.cms

Mayawati delaying chargesheet in DA probe against her: CBI
PTI 12 July 2009, 05:09pm IST

NEW DELHI: CBI has accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of
being responsible for the delay in filing its chargesheet in the

 disproportionate assets case registered against her and also for
making baseless charges of harassment and humiliation.

In a 12-page affidavit, the CBI has informed the Supreme Court that on
its part it had completed its probe in the DA case against the BSP
supremo and her relatives.

...it is the petitioner, who does not want conclusion of the
investigation and at the same time is baselessly alleging harassment
and humiliation due to ongoing probe. The so-called delay in
conclusion of the probe of the case has been caused by the petitioner
herself, the CBI said its counter affidavit in the court.

The matter which was listed for hearing on July 13 has been adjourned
for two months after Uttar Pradesh's Additional Advocate General Shail
Kumar Dwivedi yesterday told a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G
Balakrishnan that the state government would file a counter to the
agency's affidavit.

The CBI, while giving a point-by-point reply to the affidavit filed by
Mayawati in the court, said the petitioner never wanted the
investigation to be concluded, which is clear from series of
representations filed by the petitioner and her relatives expressing
shock.

About her claim that a CBI official had visited BSP's Parliament
Member Brijesh Pathak's house on or before July 22, 2008 seeking
support for UPA government at the Centre, the CBI denied it vehemently
saying it was an attempt to malign the reputation of the CBI.


[ZESTCaste] Mere appeal won't do, enact law: Left to PM

2009-07-13 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://news.oneindia.in/2006/04/19/mere-appeal-wont-do-enact-law-left-to-pm-1145441966.html

Mere appeal won't do, enact law: Left to PM

Wednesday, April 19, 2006,16:42 [IST

New Delhi, Apr 19: Supporting the Prime Minister's suggestion for job
reservations for the underprivilaged in the private sector, the Left
parties today demanded legislation to this effect while observing that
industry would continue to reject the proposal.

Mere appeal to the industry will not serve the purpose as they
continue to harp on merit and efficiency, the CPI(M),CPI and Forward
Bloc told UNI adding that only the enactment of the law would ensure
reservation in the corporate sector.



Buzz up!Dr Manmohan Singh at the CII annual Session on Tuesday once
again broached the subject of job quotas for the socially
underprvilaged in the private sector, while talking about the opening
up the labour market, undertaking labour reforms and going ahead with
the job reservations.

But CII former president Rahul Bajaj alongwith other captains of
industry threatened to go to court if the government legislated it.



CPI(M) senior leader and polit bureau member M K Pandhe made it
clear, unless there is a law, job reservations will not be
implemented. Referring to his discussions with the corporate magnates
in a meeting with the Planning Commission,the CPI(M) stalwart said
they stood for their old argument in favour of efficiency and merit.

Mr Pandhe pleaded that this is why the Left advocated the enactment of
law. Only then the constituional bodies like the SC/ST Commission and
the Minority Commission could oversee the status of job reservations
in the private sector and ensure its implementation.

CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan said the Cabinet should discuss the
crucial issue without further delay and get the new law passed in the
Parliament. Mr Bardhan's comment assumes special significance in the
wake of the recommendation by the Empowered Group of Ministers, headed
by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, that job reservation in the
private sector could be possible by amending the Constitution and
bringing in a new law, an issue that the Cabinet should decide.

CPI National Secretary D Raja, referring to the commitment to the
effect in the CMP, said even though it was' too late, yet the time
had come for implementing the promise. Mr Raja also demanded that the
government make public the recommendation of the EGM.

The Government will have to take urgent steps to ensure policy of
reservation in the private sector. Forward Bloc national Secretary G
Devrajan said the job reservation in the private sector was necessary
all the more because job opportunities were hardly there in the
government sector.

UNI


[ZESTCaste] Honour killing: Man kills daughter for marrying lover

2009-07-13 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/honour-killing-man-poisons-strangles-daughter-to-death/96932-3.html?from=rssfeed

Honour killing: Man kills daughter for marrying lover
Pawan Bali
CNN-IBN


FATHER KILLS DAUGHTER: Police say the man committed the murder to save
family's pride.
Akhnoor: In yet another case of honour killing, a father in Jammu
poisoned and then strangulated his 22-year-old daughter to death for
marrying a Dalit boy.
In a secret Arya Samaj wedding in April last year Seema Sharma – a
Brahmin girl – got married to the Dalit boy – Tarsem Lal.
Though the marriage was kept as a secret for sometime, Seema finally
told her father about it earlier this month when her marriage was
fixed with someone else.
Seema’s father managed the situation by getting her younger sister
married to the boy fixed for Seema but on the same night he allegedly
killed her.
“The father has said that he poisoned the daughter and then as she
didn’t die of the poison he strangulated her to death,” says SSP Jammu
Manohar Singh.
Police say the father committed the murder to save his family from
dishonour because he didn’t want his daughter to live with a Dalit
boy.
“Out of anger and for his respect he says he killed her,” adds the SSP.
Seema's husband Tarsem was hospitalised after he attempted suicide.





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[ZESTCaste] PIL to include neo-Buddhists in SC/ST category filed in HC

2009-07-13 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_pil-to-include-neo-buddhists-in-sc-st-category-filed-in-hc_1273443


PIL to include neo-Buddhists in SC/ST category filed in HC
Mayura Janwalkar / DNAMonday, July 13, 2009 2:31 IST

Mumbai: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed before the Bombay
High Court has sought the inclusion of neo-Buddhists among Scheduled
Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) and accordingly increase the
number of Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly seats reserved for
backward classes.

Pointing out that by counting out 6.03% Buddhists in the state, the
registrar general and census commissioner of India (RGCC) and the
director of census operation (DCO), Maharashtra, have acted in a
blind-folded manner and have erroneously counted the SC and ST
population of the state to be 10.20%.

The PIL has been filed by Swwapnil Bhingardevay, 39, an industrialist
who belongs to the SC community. Bhingardevay has stated that by
leaving out the 6.03% of the neo-Buddhists, the Centre, state, the
Delimitation Commission, GRCC and the DCO have all denied three Member
of Parliament (MP) seats and 18 Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA)
seats to the SC and ST community.

Bhingardevay's advocate Pradeep Havnur said that the petition is
likely to be heard by a division bench in the coming week.
Bhingardevay has contended that the current number of reserved MP
seats should be raised from 5 to 8 and MLA seats should be raised from
29 to 47. Calling it a systematic denial of rights, he has urged the
court to restrain the government from announcing the date of the
forthcoming assembly elections until neo-Buddhists are also given
recognition as SCs and STs.

He added that if the government continues to hold that the population
of SCs and STs in the state is 10.20% against the actual 16.23%, it
would mean that the government and its agencies deliberately do not
want to adhere to the rights provided to SCs and STs in Article 330 of
the Constitution.

The PIL also states that if the neo-Buddhists would have been counted
among the SC, ST population in 2001 census, it would add to 58,38,710
to the existing 98,81,656 population of SCs and STs.

The PIL has also urged the court to direct the concerned authorities
of reserve a seat for backward classes in the Karad constituency which
has SC and ST population of 43,224 instead of Phaltan which has a
greater population of 53,071.


[ZESTCaste] Court rejects plea against memorials

2009-07-13 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Court-rejects-plea-against-memorials/articleshow/4764840.cms

Court rejects plea against memorials
11 Jul 2009, 0228 hrs IST, ET Bureau

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the plea
seeking direction to the UP government to put on hold the ongoing
project

of installation of the statues of chief minister Mayawati and other
dalit leaders in Noida.

A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P
Sathasivam refused to intervene on the ground that such projects were
approved by the state cabinet.

“If it (project) has been approved by the government, this court
cannot interfere”, the bench said when an application seeking to
maintain the status quo on the works was mentioned before it.

The UP Rajkiya Nirman Nigam Ltd relying to an RTI query had admitted
that under the scheme to beautify the Sector 95 park (official
‘address’ of the Yamuna bed in front of Sectors 14A and 15A in Noida )
a Central Park Plaza was being built at a whopping cost of Rs 187.20
crore.

It had said that the plaza will have statues of three leaders — Dr B R
Ambedkar, Kanshi Ram and Ms Mayawati, among others.

The bench at the outset of the hearing said, the application should
have been filed before the Allahabad High Court where other matters
relating to the installation of statues were pending.

“First, you (petitioner) should have gone to the high court where some
more petitions relating to it were going on”, said court when advocate
Ravi Kant mentioned the application.

The apex court had on June 29 issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh
government on Mr Kant’s petition. It had alleged misuse of public
funds for the installation of statues of Mr Mayawati, the late Kanshi
Ram and that of elephants — BSP’s election symbol — at a park in
Lucknow.

In his fresh application, the petitioner alleged that the four weeks
granted to the state government to reply to the court notice were
being used to expedite the works for the installation of the statues.

The court, however, said, the fresh application will be heard along
with the main petition.

Senior advocates Harish Salve and Satish Chandra Mishra appeared on
behalf of the state government.

The PIL had sought a direction to restrain Ms Mayawati from installing
her statues and those of elephants at public places with public fund
and demanded a CBI probe into the misuse of state exchequer.

Mr Kant had submitted that the information gathered through RTI
disclosed that 60 statues of elephants were being installed by Uttar
Pradesh government at a cost of Rs 52.20 crore at public places by
utilising state funds.

The PIL alleged that spending crores of rupees to “falsely glorify”
leaders in a state like Uttar Pradesh, which is part of the so called
‘BIMARU’ states having Human Development Index among the lowest in the
country, is a complete misuse of public money.





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[ZESTCaste] Paswan demands revision of budget allocation for SC/ST

2009-07-13 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://www.ptinews.com/news/168473_Paswan-demands-revision-of-budget-allocation-for-SC-ST

Paswan demands revision of budget allocation for SC/ST
Advertisement

STAFF REPORTER 18:21 HRS IST
New Delhi, July 11 (PTI) Claiming that the allocation for SC/ST has
come down in the Union Budget, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan today
demanded that UPA government revise it and made a strong pitch for
reservation in private sector.

In the union budget for 2009-2010, the budget allocation for SC/ST
has gone down even from the last year's budget. The government should
revise it, Paswan said giving figures of money sanctioned for
different schemes for the SC/ST in the budget.

The LJP chief, who also heads National Dalit Front, went a step
further and demanded that money should infact be allocated to SCs and
ST as per the Special Component Plan (SCP) in accordance with their
population ratio as envisaged by former late Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi.