[ZESTCaste] Centre to de-reserve SC, ST quota in jobs
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/hyderabad/centre-de-reserve-sc-st-quota-jobs-358 Centre to de-reserve SC, ST quota in jobs By By Our Correspondent Dec 14 2009 Dec. 13: The Centre has worked out a plan to de-reserve posts which are otherwise meant only for those belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs). A ministry of personnel, P.G. and pensions, department of personnel and training, office memorandum (OM) says such an unlocking of quota could be done in the “larger public interest” as many posts in the government lie vacant despite the numerous special recruitment drives to hire SCs, STs and OBCs. The government, in its OM, has told all ministries and departments that they might propose de-reserving such posts. While conceding that there is a “general ban” on de-reservation of reserved vacancies in cases of direct recruitment, the OM, a copy of which is with this newspaper, says: “How- ever, in rare and exceptional cases, when a vacancy cannot be allowed to remain vacant in public interest, the administrative ministry or department may prepare a proposal for de-reservation of vacancy.” The government has left the issue to the subjective wisdom of the authorities to take a call. INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ZESTCaste] IITs begin advertising to fill faculty quota seats
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/iits-begin-advertising-to-fill-faculty-quota-seats/379392/ IITs begin advertising to fill faculty quota seats Pradipta Mukherjee / Kolkata December 14, 2009, 0:10 IST The premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are gearing up to complete the implemention of the scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST) and other backward classes (OBC) quota requirement for faculty positions from next year. IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Bombay and IIT-Roorkee, for instance, have started the advertising and selection process for these reserved faculty positions. The IITs have been implementing the student SC/ST/OBC quota for the last two years and are likely to complete the phased implementation within a year. Though the previous HRD minister Arjun Singh had asked the IITs to introduce the faculty quota, the elite institutes were up in arms against it. After much uproar, protest and candlelight vigils inside campuses, they were directed by current HRD Minister Kapil Sibal a few months back to toe the government line. The ministry has asked IITs to lay down 15 per cent quota for SC candidates, 7.5 per cent for ST candidates and 27 per cent quota for other backward classes (OBC) in teaching positions. A spokesperson for IIT-Kharagpur, said: “Without any compromise on qualification, experience and competence, reservation, according to the government of India rules, is available only at entry-level positions of Assistant Professor. However, while recruiting faculty for subjects other than science and technology, reservation shall also be applied in full including for the posts of Associate Professors and Professors.” IIT-Kharagpur has started advertising for fresh faculty intake and is implementing the ST/ST/OBC faculty reservation from next year, but primarily at the entry level other than the science and technology stream which is the thrust area of any IIT. IIT-Bombay is also implementing the faculty reservation quota from next year. An official at IIT-Bombay told Business Standard: “This time the advertisement inviting applications for faculty positions clearly mentions the quota implementation. Our earlier advertisements inviting applications from faculty never specifically quoted the reservation but this time we have mentioned it to ensure there are enough applications.” A professor from IIT-Roorkee, on conditions of anonymity, confirmed: “We have started the process of implementing the SC/ST/OBC quota for faculty positions. We have also finished the selection process for a few teachers. IIT-Roorkee has over 350 teachers right now and it is increasing the number.” INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ZESTCaste] Dalit family sold for Rs 2.75 lakh in Rajasthan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dalit-family-sold-for-Rs-275-lakh-in-Rajasthan/articleshow/5329138.cms Dalit family sold for Rs 2.75 lakh in Rajasthan Kshitiz Gaur, TNN 12 December 2009, 04:34am IST Ajmer AJMER: A court in Rajasthan has asked the police to register a case against an influential Rajput family in Ajmer district for allegedly selling an entire Dalit family for Rs 2.75 lakh to a Tonk-based furnace factory to work there as bonded labourers. Mahaveer, his wife Sharda and their children Rakesh, Mukesh, Ghisalal, Chitar and his wife Sajani were sold last year, but the incident came to the fore when the family escaped from captivity. One year after the alleged transaction, the seven members of the Dalit family escaped and reached their native Sunariya village in Ajmer. They took refuge in a jungle after they were brutally beaten allegedly by the Rajput family members who also burned down their house. The court order came after an Ajmer-based lawyer decided to take up their case. On Friday, a court in Sarwar asked the police to register cases against the alleged culprits, including Gopal, Bhupender, Prahalad and Hanuman Bheel. ‘‘Last year Gopal, Bhupender and Prahalad took us to Tonk on a jeep and left us at the furnace factory. We had to work there for 15 to 16 hours daily,’’ recalled Mahaveer. He said factory owner Mustakim Bajigar refused to pay any wages saying he had already paid money. ‘‘We used to get very less to eat and were not allowed to go out,’’ said Sharda. INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ZESTCaste] LS members resist AIIMS 'privatisation'
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/74685/India/LS+members+resist+AIIMS+'privatisation'.html LS members resist AIIMS 'privatisation' Mail Today Bureau New Delhi, December 12, 2009 Lok Sabha members on Friday protested against the government's push for financial autonomy in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Raising the matter during question hour, Mangani Lal Mandal of the JD-U alleged that the government was moving towards privatisation by accepting the recommendations of the M. S. Valiathan Committee, set up to look into the institute's functioning. Mandal alleged that at a meeting held on November 26, the government had agreed to involve industry associations in its move to privatise the AIIMS. The MP was particularly agitated about what he perceived was a proposal of the committee that recruitment to Class C and D level posts should be done through reputed professional agencies in public/private sectors. He demanded to know if the government would fill backlog of vacancies in the SC/ST/OBC categories in AIIMS in these categories. Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's assurance that the government was duty-bound to implement reservations, and that the AIIMS governing panel and the government had not approved the Valiathan Committee proposal, did not pacify members from the BJP, JD-U and Left parties. JD-U MPs, in fact, threatened to stage a walkout. The Valiathan report has invited criticism, particularly from academics, researchers and doctors, on the ground that it aims to push the institute out of the common man's reach. They believe that since the AIIMS was set up under an Act of Parliament, any change in its basic character should be made only by Parliament. The report's proposals have been rejected by the AIIMS institute body. Some objectionable proposals are that members of business bodies like FICCI and ASSOCHAM be empanelled on the research council and academic council and the decisionmaking process of the institute. It is also being said that the committee has recommended a revenue-generation model that would lead to increased privatisation of the AIIMS.
[ZESTCaste] Naxalites: It's us versus them again
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Naxalites-Its-us-versus-them-again-/articleshow/5329963.cms Naxalites: It's us versus them again Chitralekha Dhamija 12 December 2009, 12:48pm IST So we've decided to smoke them out. Satellite imagery, global positioning systems, armed choppers are in place. By all indications our forces seem Chitralekha Dhamija poised to lead the ultimate offensive to rid us of Naxalites. No one's complaining, less so after the grim television coverage of the late Francis Induwar and his grieving family suddenly brought the distant Maoists closer home. Induwar, a special branch inspector, was decapitated in October this year upon the government's refusal to release arrested Maoist leaders such as Kobad Ghandy, Chhatradhar Mahato, Chandrabhushan Yadav etc. The military is good as gold for messy tasks like this. It was exactly this kind of intervention that doused the Left in Peru, forced the Zapatistas to seek out internet forums. Closer home we only have to look at what happened to the LTTE. So really it should work. But let's be clear about whom exactly we expect to be eliminated. In a context somewhat changed from the socioeconomic setting that drove the agrarian unrest and peasant consciousness of yesteryears, who really are 'Naxalites' today? Are they mostly poor people fighting for a larger cause? Modern day mercenaries employed by an international nexus? Neither? Just who is the state going after? I have not met Kobad Ghandy or Chatradhar Mahato but as part of my doctoral research I met with dozens of armed cadre of the MCCI and People's War, then in process of merger into CPI (Maoist), over months in 2003. Across districts in Jharkhand and parts of Bihar I located, lived and travelled with these men and women - zonal commanders, sub-zonals , area commanders, deputies, fresh recruits. They are not members of central committees but the kind of Naxalites who, if things go as planned by the government, will be directly in the line of fire. A thin slice of the guerillas I met were deeply committed, men who had sacrificed ordinary life for a cause they believed in. A few more were opportunists who joined the movement with calculated personal agendas, and are unlikely to die on the job. The numbers however - and that is what matters - were made up of those I call Drifters. Not hard-nosed ideologues, not cold-blooded mercenaries, just ordinary young people making the best of 'occupational choices' available. Perhaps it's also time to ask why so many children from erstwhile 'enemy' families are joining the Naxals. As opposed to the dominant conception of Naxalites as marginal peasants, most armed cadres in dastas I met had land enough for subsistence, often much more than that. Their stories warn against easy essentialisation of Naxalites and pitching them into carry-over categories from past discourses: richpoor , landed-landless , Dalit-upper castes and so on. Take for instance a sixteen-year-old MCCI area commander whose Rajput folks had 25 acres of land in Latehar but couldn't make ends meet. Or Oraon, a sub-zonal commander, who worked in Delhi's Wazirpur industrial area before he joined the Naxals. Agriculture was never on his wish list. A Dalit area commander, who had enough to eat but walked six kilometers to school each way in pursuit of other dreams joined Nari Mukti Sangh at the age of fourteen. A captured MCCI 'hardcore' from an impoverished Santhali family in Giridih had thought she would be a leader . Land or no land, rich or poor, it was finally aspirations as ordinary and universal as recognition, achievement, status, clout and izzat (from peers and community, not class enemies) that shaped choices in locations that haven't provided ambitious young people with too many avenues of self-fulfillment and peer approval. It doesn't help that these political choices are being made at an average age of 12 to16, when young people find guns and power that issue from holding them uncomplicatedly attractive. So let's go ahead with a military plan if we must but let's at least be honest about who it is that we are going after. As we gun them down, let's be completely conscious of the real identities of Naxalites today - they are not quite heroes dying for a larger cause or merely hard-boiled opportunists. Most of them are just young people whose aspirations were never on our radar, and who the state may now have no choice but to murder. The writer is a Mumbai-based journalist and academic
[ZESTCaste] Maximum complaints from Dalits in UP: NCSC
http://www.ptinews.com/news/421259_Maximum-complaints-from-Dalits-in-UP--NCSC Maximum complaints from Dalits in UP: NCSC STAFF WRITER 13:47 HRS IST Muzaffarnagar, Dec 13 (PTI) The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has received maximum complaints from Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, where the state government has allegedly failed to protect their interests, its chairman Buta Singh said. Singh told mediapersons in Saharanpur yesterday that Dalits in UP have not been getting benefits of the schemes of the Centre due to their improper implementation by the BSP government. Only 15 per cent out of 17 per cent population of Dalits in the state have got the benefit of reservation so far, Singh claimed.
[ZESTCaste] Our Levitating Prejudice
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main43.asp?filename=hub191209our_levitating.asp From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 50 Dated December 19, 2009 CULTURE SOCIETY books Our Levitating Prejudice Ilaiah’s latest book intoxicates but threatens to overdose ANAND TELTUMBDE KANCHA ILAIAH is known for books with explosive titles like Why I Am Not a Hindu and Buffalo Nationalism, but with spiritual content. This book, his latest, follows in the same tradition. At a time when many intellectuals are morbidly worried about the resurgence of Hindutva, Ilaiah boldly sees Hinduism on course of its death because of its “failure to mediate between scientific thought and spiritual thought”. The book is a reflective account of his own journey through castes and communities and highlights everyday clashes of caste cultures and conflict between “the productive ethic of Dalit-Bahujan castes and the anti-productive and anti-scientific ethic of Hindu Brahminism”. The contents page would catch the fancy of any reader with its catchy phrases like ‘intellectual goondas”, “spiritual fascists”, used for Brahmins and “subaltern scientists”, “meat and milk economists” for the Dalit- Bahujans. The first thing that crossed my mind is that the marketing wing of any publication house will be simply overjoyed with brand ‘Kancha Ilaiah,’ with its potential appeal to the vast market spanning three out of four spiritual worlds (Christian, Islam and Buddhist, excluding Hindu), to make use of his phraseology. Indeed, with his passionate promotion of Dalit-Bahujan and outlandish interpretation of mundane details of life, he has created a unique place for himself among subaltern writers. POST-HINDU INDIA: DALIT-BAHUJAN SOCIO-SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION Kancha Ilaiah Sage Publications 316 pp; Rs 295 Reading this book gives you a feel of travelling in a Maglev train — an illusion of running on rails but in fact levitates over a thin layer of air. While traversing through its arguments, the book creates an illusion of being based on truth but is distanced from it by a thin layer of prejudice. There is an overdose of culture and spirituality which could intoxicate readers without them realising it. If one is not so ‘spiritually’ intoxicated, one suffers from mundane doubts nibbling at his intellect: is this conjoint term ‘Dalit-Bahujan’ sociologically viable, given the huge load of material contradictions between these two population groups that have been precipitating into most heinous caste atrocities? How and why did these worthy ‘spiritual democrats’ or ‘spiritual revolutionaries’ come to emulate the caste hierarchy of Brahmins, the spiritual fascists, within themselves and zealously preserve it? If the Dalit- Bahujans were so accomplished in terms of their scientific and technological prowess, how could they be enslaved by a handful of scheming and spiritually degenerate Brahmins for millennia? The book succeeds in establishing the superiority of Dalit-Bahujans, but doesn’t it essentially follow the very same Brahmanic ethos of superiority-inferiority? The value of Kancha Iliah’s book lies not so much in its thesis but in the richness of its observations not only on the castes of India, but also on the many people and events in the world. (Teltumbde is the author of Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop) From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 50 Dated December 19, 2009 INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ZESTCaste] 2009 scholarship donations
2009 scholarship donations Dear donors and friends, I apologize for the delay in accepting donations for 2009 scholarships. It is delayed as we were trying to fix Organizational issues in India. I am almost done with it. Following is the progress: 1. Friends for Education International has been registered under Friends for Education International (India Chapter) 2. Organizational committee has been established. I will send the info in another mail 3. Bank Account is opened (Corporate Bank, Nampally, Hyderabad) 4. Working on getting Income Tax exemption and FRCA clearance 5. Applications for scholarships have been received So, I request for your donations. We have only 2 weeks in 2009. Please rush your donations. For donations in USD, we will issue certificate for your tax purposes as ours is a 501(c)(3) org. For donations in rupees, we may not be able to do so. Remember that we gave more than 100 scholarships last year and I want to see atleast 50% increase this year. Please help us to help the deserving but financially and socially backward children in India. Please let your family members, friends, and colleagues know our work and encourage them to help us. You can donate online or send check to US or India. Please follow the link for donation information: http://www.friends4education.org/scholarship/0Main/html/donate_address.htm US (Tax exempted under 501(c)(3): In favor of :FFEI (Friends for Education International) Bank : US Bank, La Crescenta, CA Address: Benjamin P Kaila 2755 Sanborn Ave La Crescenta, CA 91214 Tel: 818.248.5889 818.248.5889 818.248.5889 818.248.5889 Email:benjamin_ka...@yahoo.com Please write to me for any questions India (not yet income tax exempted): Please contact the following: Address to send cheque: In favor of: Friends for Education International (India Chapter) Bank: Corporation Bank, Nampally, Hyderabad Mr K L Paul Gayatri Apartments, Block 1, Flat 407, APIIC Colony, Jidimetla Hyderabad, India 500 055 Please send this request to your friends, colleagues, and other who you think can help us. Please write to me for any questions. With regards Benjamin -- An educated man without character and humility was more dangerous than a beast. If his education was detrimental to the welfare of poor, he was a curse to society. -Babasaheb Dr B R Ambedkar Please visit www.friendsforeducation.org or www.ambedkarscholarship.org
[ZESTCaste] Court asks AIIMS to admit OBC candidate to course of choice
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/court-asks-aiims-to-admit-obc-candidate-to-course-of-choice_100288657.html Court asks AIIMS to admit OBC candidate to course of choice December 13th, 2009 - 5:22 pm ICT by IANS - New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has asked the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to allocate a seat, in the course of his choice, to an aspirant who sought to appear in counselling both under the general and quota seats but was not allowed. A division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S.Muralidhar, in a order passed earlier this week, asked the AIIMS to admit Manish Patnecha, a candidate from the other backward class (OBC), who was denied an opportunity to sit for second counselling against the OBC quota this year after he opted for a seat against the general category. During the second counselling, he sought to appear against the OBC quota so that he could get admission in a subject of his choice but AIIMS debarred him, saying that would block two seats. Patnecha then approached the court, contending a higher ranked candidate belonging to reserved category should not be deprived of the choice of either a seat or an institution vis-a-vis a candidate of the same social class figuring lower in the merit list, while applying the principle of reservation. Finding the AIIMS decision unjustified, the court directed the institute to offer Patnecha the seat in the course of his choice. Earlier this year, a single judge bench had declined any relief to Patnecha, ruling that the AIIMS could not be directed to have second counselling again and allot him the seat in a course of his choice, cancelling the allocation of the seat to another candidate.
[ZESTCaste] Dalit empowerment plan of Cong stuck
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Dalit-empowerment-plan-of-Cong-stuck/553730 Dalit empowerment plan of Cong stuck Maulshree-Seth Posted online: Monday , Dec 14, 2009 at 0236 hrs Lucknow : The Youth Congress is finding it difficult to enroll new members under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes categories — the backbone of the ruling BSP — in Uttar Pradesh. The reason: Many SC/ST applicants have failed to submit their caste certificates with their enrollment applications, saying that it was difficult to get the certificates issued from the government officials. As a result, all such applications are yet to be approved. Providing the SC/ST certificates with the application forms is important for two reasons. First, the membership fee for SC/STs is only Rs 5 as against Rs 15 for others. So any person unable to submit the certificate has to pay Rs 15. But more importantly, the SC/ST candidates without the required certificates will be enrolled under the general category and this will debars them from getting the benefit of reservation in important posts of the Youth Congress. In an attempt to empower the Dalits, the Youth Congress has, for the first time, provided reservation for SC/STs at all levels of the organisation, beginning from panchayats to Lok Sabha constituencies. The reason behind the outfit’s insistence to attaching the SC/ST certificate is that it wants to ensure that the organisational reform actually benefits the SC/STs. But with just two days of the membership drive left, the party has thousands of application forms filled by the SC/ST members minus the caste certificates. The caste certificates are issued by the local tehsil administration but the Youth Congress has told the applicants that it would also accept those certificates which have been issued by gram panchayat secretary or any authorised government official. This, too, has not helped the candidates. “We are trying our level best to help such members, but they say panchayat secretaries and officials at the tehsils are not issuing the certificates. We cannot accept these forms under the SC/ST category. We estimate that if the problem persists, then it would reduce our SC/ST membership by 50 per cent,” said Arvind Chaudhary, state returning officer of the Youth Congress. If the candidates are unable to submit their caste certificates by December 15, their applications will be accepted under the general category. “We did not face such problem in other states,” said Chaudhary, who actively took part in organising Youth Congress polls in Punjab and Gujarat. Rajesh Rathore, returning officer for Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha segment said that little could be done for those without the caste certificates as almost the entire enrollment process has been computerised. “Even if we accept these forms without caste certificates, they will be rejected during scrutiny,” Rathore added Sources said that in Rae Bareli Lok Sabha segment, around 800 forms submitted by SC/ST youths are without caste certificates. In Dariabad Assembly segment of Faizabad Lok Sabha area it is 450 and in Kannauj Lok Sabha segment the figure stands at 1,000. A district administration official in Lucknow, meanwhile, said the procedure of getting the caste certificate that entails submission of an application with an affidavit at the tehsil office followed by verification, generally takes a month. INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ZESTCaste] SC/ST body to fast for pvt job quota
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20091213/814/tnl-sc-st-body-to-fast-for-pvt-job-quota.html SC/ST body to fast for pvt job quota Sun, Dec 13 04:36 AM Taking a cue from Telangana and Gorkhaland activists, leaders of the All India Confederation of Scheduled Castes amp; Scheduled Tribes Organisations on Saturday declared a fast-unto-death from December 15 to press for job reservation in the private sector and other demands. Chairman of the confederation Udit Raj charged the government of being apathetic towards the demands of SCs and STs, and said he and other members of the organisation would fast-unto-death from December 15. He said that marginalisation of people in the lower strata of society was the primary reason behind the demand for separate states and urged the government to address their problems. Raj said there were several competent SC/ST candidates, but they were unemployed as private sectors did not have reservation for them. The private sector employs very few persons from the SC/ST category especially in positions of power. Therefore, the government should intervene to address the inequality, he said. He also charged the UPA government of ignoring the issue despite the fact that reservation was part of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of UPA 1. Apart from reservation in private sector, the confederation also demanded enactment of the Reservation Act, abolition of contract labour system in government services, caste certificates issued by one state to be made valid in all states and reservation in higher judiciary and the Armed Forces.
