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		<title>PG Scholarship for Professional courses for SC/ST Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Employment news Dt.28 Nov &#8211; 4 Dec 2009  (Thanks to Dr Shalini Subhash)



The University Grants Commission invites applications for the award of scholarship for the year 2009-10 under the scheme of PG Scholarship for Professional courses for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Candidates.
This scheme has been initiated keeping in view the social background of the candidates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=940&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Centre to de-reserve SC, ST quota in jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Deccan Herald
( Samatha )
Has the government done anything about finding out why these government posts are vacant ? Have they taken any action against officials who are not interested in filling up these posts ? Have they set any minimum goals in filling these posts ? Have they ever bothered to publish the vacancy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=932&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Atrocities (Anand Teltumbde Explains )</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Source: Counter Currents
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Anand traces different opperssors of dalits through historical time line. He finds that most of the upper castes are functioning as upper class disregarding castes, for the most part. However, the shudras who have assumed the power in rural india are exploiting caste, mainly at the cost of dalits.  He conculdes that brahminism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=926&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Source : Human Rights Watch
PDF Version of the Report : hidden-apartheid 
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This is a very comprehensive report covering all aspects of dalit oppression.  A must read.
Recommendations by HRW Report

Condemn caste discrimination and undertake to pursue by all appropriate means
a policy of eliminating caste discrimination
Ensure the development and protection of certain groups or individuals
belonging to dalits
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		<title>Dalit Status ( A Frontline review )</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Please go out and buy the Nov 21-Dec 04 Issue of Frontline. It is truly a collector&#8217;s edition. It provides a GOOD picture of dalits today.

Source : Frontline
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN AND
AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA



 The S.C. and S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has failed to make Dalits any safer. 



 RANJEET KUMAR 

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		<title>Dalit families refused insurance scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samatha 
37 families have been thrown on the road because they wanted to register for medical insurance scheme. Police Sub Inspector who investigated the report is Transferred !!! District administration of Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu have not bothered to rehabilitate the suffering families. Police have actually registered FIR against the dalits !!! They have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=891&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samatha 
It is the poor and the landless who deserve most help during these natural calamities. However, even simple gruel is not being served to the poor in the name of them not having Id cards of local areas !!! We don&#8217;t think anybody  should be turned away from gruel centers. Distributing relief from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=885&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>26th National Convention of BAMCEF</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Pradip Bansode
BAMCEF Appeal in PDF Form


 
Educate! Organise!! Agitate!!!
 
BAMCEF
 
Regd. No:. S &#8211; 17809
 
The All India Backward (S.C., S.T., OBC) And Minority Communities Employees Federation, Delhi
Central Office: &#8211; 10795, Phoolwali Gali, Manak Pura, Karol Bagh, New Delhi-5. Ph: 011-23614369
eMail: info@bamcef.org &#124; website: www.bamcef.org

 
26th National Convention
Dates : 25th to 28th December 2009
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		<title>Story of Neglected dalits in a UP Village : not touched by Mayawati</title>
		<link>http://samatha.in/2009/10/09/story-of-neglected-dalits-in-a-up-village-not-touched-by-mayawati/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Al Jazeera
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It is not real for dalit villagers to expect land reforms right after they voted for Mayawati. Centuries hold power structures can not be pulled down that fast. Their plight describes the fate of many other dalit villagers in different parts of India.
Corruption by administrators of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act  is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=787&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malgudi : Dalit girls start a Cafe in Mysore</title>
		<link>http://samatha.in/2009/10/09/malgudi-dalit-girls-start-a-cafe-in-mysore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: The Guardian
Taking destiny to task
A Mysore cafe staffed by Dalit girls is challenging long-held caste taboos
Mari Marcel Thekaekara
guardian.co.uk, Monday 6 April 2009 00.05 BST

The Malgudi coffee shop. Photograph: Stan Thekaekara
Dressed in a sunshine yellow and burgundy langa davane, the traditional costume of young south Indian girls, Gouri glides gracefully around the Green Hotel coffee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=774&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IAS Aspirant from bihar turning into a politician</title>
		<link>http://samatha.in/2009/10/09/ias-aspirant-from-bihar-turning-into-a-politician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Times of India
GOPALGANJ: Once upon a time there was an MLA who aspired to become an IAS RJD candidate Anil Kumar. (TOI Photo)

officer! He wrote the civil services exam, cleared it and was RJD candidate Anil Kumar. (TOI Photo)
called for interview.
Unfortunately for the IAS aspirant, the interview board chairman asked him if he was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=775&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN set to treat caste as human rights violation</title>
		<link>http://samatha.in/2009/10/08/un-set-to-treat-caste-as-human-rights-violation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samatha
discrimination based on caste is human rights violation. U  can&#8217;t abolish caste as every hindu is assigned a caste at birth. this is an
identity. What this declaration is calling for, is that social sanction
and indirect support by state machinery for caste based persecution
can be challenged in international courts. This enables international
recognition for brutal injustice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=871&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government of India PG Scholarships for SC / ST</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source :  Pradip Bansode ( Email)

The University Grants Commission invites applications for the award of fellowship for the year 2009-10 under RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP SCHEME (RGNFS) for the benefit of SC/ST candidates.
The scheme has been initiated keeping in view the social background of the candidates for the deprived section of the society and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=868&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caste and inequalities in health</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: The Hindu
K.S. Jacob



 Caste is a major indicator of health outcomes and mandates the need for interventions that change social structures. 



The caste system, with its societal stratification and social restrictions, continues to have a major impact on the country. The system, generally identified with Hinduism, is also prevalent among Christians, Sikhs and Muslims. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=860&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parliament approves SC/ST reservation Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: The Hindu

J. Balaji
Bill seeks to extend the reservation beyond January 25, 2010
Rajya Sabha passed the Bill on Monday

NEW DELHI: Parliament has adopted the Constitution (109th amendment) Bill, 2009, for providing reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and the Legislative Assemblies for another 10 years, with the Lok [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=858&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mayawati : a journey of hope against oppression</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Mayawathi has been riding a roller coaster waves of popular support, which placed her at top of UP government, but brought down her third front challenge. Congress party&#8217;s well conceived policies of NREGA, Sarva shikshan Abhidhan, Right to Information, Right to Education, Right to Food Security, Tribal land reform acts, Bold moves by Manmohan singh [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=764&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No automatic quota benefit in another State: Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: The Hindu
J. Venkatesan
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that a person belonging to a particular community notified as Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe in one State cannot automatically claim the benefit of reservation in another State or Union Territory.
A Bench consisting of Justices S.B. Sinha (since retired) and Cyriac Joseph said “both the Central government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=842&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IITs can’t expel SC, ST students on merit excuse: SC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Anoop Kheri )
Kudos to Ravindra Kumar of IIT Delhi student who started this fight last year. It is an amazing and far reaching decision that will secure the future of thousands of Dalit students from such &#8216;Institute of excellence&#8217; where every year hundreds of dalit students, though allowed entry due to reservation, are forced to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=839&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DO OUR RESERVATION POLICIES SERVE THEIR PURPOSE?-A discussion</title>
		<link>http://samatha.in/2009/08/12/do-our-reservation-policies-serve-their-purpose-a-discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (Samatha)
Satinath suggests sub-quotas based on caste and argues against economic criteria for creamy layers.  Economic criteria leads to rampant frauds as income certificates are much easier than caste certificates
where fraud can be identified easily by checking ancestry. Hiding assets has been an accomplished skill for the rich and powerful.  Sub-quotas based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=831&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Taliban Of Our Very Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Power of these lawless panchayats is really scare. Khap Panchayats control 25,000 villages !!! That&#8217;s a state within the state. How could we allow such parallel governments ? Its sickening to read their brutal punishments. When elected representatives depend on these Khap panchayats, its not surprising. Why shouldn&#8217;t the government at the center intervene [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=829&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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