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The Hindu : Arts / Magazine : Colours of discrimination

The Hindu : Arts / Magazine : Colours of discrimination

INVITATION

INVITATION

Intellectual Seminar of Dalits & Bahujans

Venue: Balaji Thirupati Rao Date: March 13 & 14, 2010

Kalyana Mandapam, ONGOLE Saturday & Sunday



________________________ Organised by_________________________________

Intellectual Forum of Dalits & Bahujans.

INAGURAL SESSION

Preside over by
Sri Jaibeem Nageswara Rao
Chief convenor, intellectual forum

Inaugural Address
prof: B.L. Mungekar
Former Member of planing commission and
former vice chancellor, Bombay University.

Chief Guest
Justice Mr. K. Rama Swamy
Suprem court judge (rtd)

Upper cast Discrimination

As the Women's Reservation Bill rings in the centennial year of Women's Day on a celebratory note, 25-year-old Sushma Tiwari's story tells of an inspirational fight-back against a brutal form of patriarchy and caste oppression.

It has been a six-year legal battle for Sushma against the horrific ‘honour killing' by her brother of almost her entire marital family: husband Prabhu Nochil, her father-in-law and two minors in their home near Mumbai, all to avenge her marriage into a family of a ‘lower' caste. Sushma is from a Brahmin family of UP, and Prabhu, an Ezhava from Kerala.

Although the fast track sessions court in Maharashtra, and later the Bombay High Court, awarded the death penalty to Sushma's brother Dilip Tiwari and his accomplices, the Supreme Court in December 2009 reduced the sentence to 25-year imprisonment.

This February, Sushma filed a review petition questioning the decision to let off the perpetrators of this heinous crime.

In 2004, seven months after the couple got married, Dilip and his associates massacred four members of the Nochil family, and grievously injured two others. A pregnant Sushma luckily escaped as she was visiting a relative.

The Supreme Court, explaining its decision to revoke the death sentence, said: “It is a common experience that when the younger sister commits something unusual and in this case it was an inter-caste, intercommunity marriage out of [a] secret love affair, then in society it is the elder brother who justifiably or otherwise is held responsible for not stopping such [an] affair.”

It added: “If he became the victim of his wrong but genuine caste considerations, it would not justify the death sentence... The vicious grip of the caste, community, religion, though totally unjustified, is a stark reality.”

“Totally illegal”

Sushma has challenged this reasoning, stating this perception “is wrong and totally illegal under our Constitution and various laws of the land like the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989” and “can never be made a ground for lessening a sentence. In fact, these feelings of caste hatred are themselves criminal…”

Her petition states: “In fact, mass killings based on the concept of ‘honour' must be viewed by this Hon'ble Court as murders which must be given the highest deterrent sentence.”

In Bangalore recently to attend the National Young Women's convention organised by the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), this resolute young woman told The Hindu that by reducing the sentence, the highest court of the land has sent out a wrong message to all those who wished to marry out of caste. “Even if not for my own safety or that of my five-year-old daughter Trishna, the death sentence must be upheld for the sake of humanity.”

By Divya Gandhi
The Hindu

Dalits retain their own land

About 100 villagers from the Dalitwada of Mambakam village of Varadaiahpalem mandal in the district on Thursday encroached the sprawling 40 acre of the Kalki Bhagawan Ashram and earmarked their individual borders.
According to information reaching here, villagers reached the ashram surrounded by the reserve forest early in the morning. Carrying farm equipment like crowbars, sickles and pickaxes, they started clearing bushes and made individual boundaries, writing their names on the rocks.
Police at Satyavedu and Varadaiahpalem station received information around 10.30 am, but there was no action from them. Similarly, the management of Kalki Bhagawan Ashram, located 12 km from the encroached land, also did not respond.
Villages claimed that the lands originally belonged to them and the ashram personnel had taken these over, making false promises.
They remained there till dusk and later left for their hamlet.

Seeking justice: Activists at the Dalit Stree Shakti meeting in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: She was trembling as she was helped up the steps. Unsure and a little scared, the fifteen-year-old sat facing rows of women, all strangers to her. She wouldn’t look up. “I want justice,” she said, her words barely audible as she buried her face in her hands along with her tears. It was the voice of a child – frightened and scarred.

The hall murmured, clucked in sympathy but there was no comfort in that. Not for a victim of gang-rape. She cried quietly as somebody relayed the sordid details. Her father’s upper caste employer, a Sub-Inspector, two constables were all accused in a case that has dragged on for ten months.
She was one among 70 men and women, all of whom testified at a public hearing on violence against Dalit women and girl-children held here on Thursday by the Dalit Stree Shakti.
Young mothers

Dalits by birth, they came from Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, East and West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur and other places in the hope of getting justice. There were young mothers cheated of child support, grieving parents who have lost their daughters to statutory rape and ‘suicide’.

Stories blurred as victims and their families asked the same questions. Why my child? How can we be refused justice so brazenly? When, everyone else is fighting for rights, why are we fighting to live? They looked tired. They tried for months to convince the police to register a First Information Report (FIR). They spent years in and around courts, filing the same case after it was quashed as false. After bundling away a life’s worth of savings, they watched as a thicker wad of notes denied them justice. And they started all over again.

They were all exhausted but not one of them has given up hope. “I will not let this go. I owe it to my child,” said a woman, whose 16-year-old daughter died earlier this month hours after she had been raped.


Source : The hindu

SC, ST Entrepreneurs

RBI nod for loans up to Rs. 1 cr. to SC/ST entrepreneurs



HYDERABAD: The RBI has cleared a proposal made by the State government to give loans up to Rs. 1 crore to SC/ST entrepreneurs without collateral security to encourage them as industrialists.

Announcing this in the Assembly on Thursday in reply to a question by G. Nagesh and P. Ramulu (both Telugu Desam), Major Industries Minister K. Lakhsminarayana said as the RBI approval was available now, a trust would be constituted shortly with an amount of Rs. 5 crore to stand guarantee for the loans given to these entrepreneurs through State Finance Corporation. The Telugu Desam members cautioned the government that some people with bogus caste certificates might apply as the loans were being sanctioned with huge subsidy.

source : The Hindu.

NEWS

The Andrapradesh Government going to be establishment credit guaranty trust for the purpose of SC ST fresh business persons. It was announced by late CM Dr. YS Rajashekar Reddy.Recently there was a meeting conducted by govt.Industrial represents with Bankers they (Bankers) was not willing to give loans to Dalits even though Government will give credit guaranty to Dalits up to Rs.5 corers. Bankers argument is they has been giving loans up to Rs. 1 corer which is central govt assurance more than that they will be in trouble. Because the state govt giving credit guaranty up to 250 corer. So the scheme may be going in to cold storage. Its a dream project to late Chief Minister Dr. YSR. However department of industries govt of Andrapradesh trying to convince state level Bankers. And he was written to Reserve Bank of India a letter to permission to give loans. RBI replayed to govt if Bankers agree to give loan they won't have any objection to give loans to Dalits. And govt will add this policy in their next industrial policy.

Republic of India - DALITS

India just completed its republic day celebrations. 1oo core India's population Dalits have major role in India's development as a agriculture labor and other unorganized sector. In organized sector like in business the did n't have any major role to participate. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar created reservation to Dalits in Education as well as Govt. Employement, and politics. Most of the educated Dalits settled in Govt. jobs only.Business was not a part of their goals,” says Ambedkar. “Their first job was to get themselves educated. The first opportunity they got was government jobs, because government jobs offered them financial viability and financial stability.”

Whereas in business class we don't have any recognized industry owned by Dalits. There is just one Dalit-backed company among the 4,700 listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange: the Visaka Industries. Its founder, G Vivekanand MP, is the son of G Venkat Swamy cwc member, who was India’s textile minister when the company was launched in 1983.

Govt of India has been funding to uplift the Dalit community every budjet alloction but they did n't created a Dalit business community. In NDA govt the BJP used Ambedkar jayanti to push the idea of Dalit entrepreneurship.

But all three of them, like 27 of the 39 Indians on the Forbes rich list, come from India’s traditional merchant communities. India’s untouchables, the “scheduled castes and tribes” who make up the bottom quarter of India’s 1.2 billion population, are absent. We don't have business icon. Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar, was the Dalit leader who did most to free his caste from the discrimination of untouchables – which made them ritually unclean to “higher” Hindus. He wrote the Indian constitution in 1949, outlawing caste discrimination.That Dalits are still completely absent from the list of India’s rich 60 years later is, Ambedkar argues, one of the darkest blemishes on the country’s recent economic progress.

The Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) Affirmative Action Code of Conduct is also an attempt to address the issue. However, the CII and Indian companies we have seen that the codes have tended to be ‘social’ rather than ‘economic’ development programmes.There are 2 lakhs dealers for HLL in India most of them hails from indias traditional merchant family. Why don't they give atleast one Dalit.Mr. Chandrabanu prasad says "assuming a HLL dealer get a 1% commission, he can earn a minimum of over Rs 60 lakh a year. A Dalit can take up this dealership, taking less commission than others. Don't replace existing dealers, but when new dealerships are given out, reserve some for Dalits." Most of the Dalits have small business, small gaurages I'm requesting here Govt and industry take consious steps to become Dalit merchant community. Yes we do not have social network we have to create & effort to bring in to supply chain.

In Andrapradesh Dr. YS Rajasekhar Reddy try to up lift the Dalits become the entrepreneuers unfortunatly we lost him in Air crash.

We the Dalit have to think twice here to change our social network, to change our social status.

DALITS INDIA @BUSINESS

Let me share with you why I titled "Dalits @Business in India. We all pretty well know that, the business class in India up to this twenty first century has been (Dvijas) upper cast. I have been thinking that why the Dalits are not in business. Why Dalits are not part of in captalist group.

Dr. Ambedkar gifted to all Dalits in this country reservation system in education & Govt emplyoment. After that many of the our folks has been become civil servents, Doctors, Engineers, teachers, now in this decade some are becoming scintist. In politics we have Dalit president, speaker, Ministers as well as CM, duputy PMs, but why don't we become Industrialist. Why don't we part in the CII?. This quastion have been alaraming in my mind. I know we're discriminate people in this country, by the grace of Dr. Ambedkar we are now able to affort to live in citys. Our children also speaking English, we're awarded IIT digrees, MS, and after globaligation and software boom our children are also working in USA. I think this is the right time some of young Dalits looking in to business.

I'm glad to tell that some Dalit groups working for business class. In Pune Dalit business people set up an organization called DICCI( dalit India chamber of commerce and Industry), like that in Delhi based Dalit Vyapar Welfare Association (DVWA) are trying to do the same for Dalits.

Folks -as a community, should start thinking beyond working for others. We should start thinking of becoming businessmen and hiring others.


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