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		<title>Bright prospects for a better life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Deccan Herald Alka Pande , Women’s Feature Service Wednesday, March 17, 2010 One of the biggest challenges that schools in rural India face is poor power supply. A UNICEF-IKEA initiative brings a ray of light into the lives of girls in government schools, writes Alka Pande Divya has a dream. Says this 12-year-old student [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=987&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">LET THERE BE LIGHT The girls at Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalay in Lucknow no longer have to alter their study schedule due to the erratic power supply. Pic/ Courtesy WFS</media:title>
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		<title>Teachers from oppressed sections would help change stereotypes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Economic Times Opposition to reservation for Scheduled Caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) candidates in teaching faculty positions has much in common with widespread general opposition to reservations per se. The same argument of merit and excellence is adduced by anti-reservationists in all fields. Even those who believe that social exclusion, deprivation and discrimination [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=984&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JNU Faculty considers &#8220;Reservation NOT legally binding&#8221; !!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Indian Express Deepu Sebastian Edmond Tags : jnu, delhi Posted: Thursday , Mar 18, 2010 at 0015 hrs New Delhi: // The academic council of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is set to address the question of implementing the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe category reservation for the posts of professor and associate professor on Thursday. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=982&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SC/ST posts not filled up in Railways, says panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: PTI News STAFF WRITER 21:8 HRS IST New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) Expressing dismay that large number of Group C and Group D posts meant for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have not been filled up in railways, a Parliamentary committee today asked the ministry concerned to make concerted efforts to fill the vacancies. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=980&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Govt diktat on SC/ST quota rankles PSU banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Economic Times KOLKATA: The long pending issue of reservation for scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) in the country’s public sector banks (PSBs) is back on centrestage. The Centre has just asked all PSBs to follow a reservation policy for SC/STs at all officers’ categories which has rankled banking circles. The government’s direction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=974&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Disjointed Prosperity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: New York Times By TIM SEBASTIAN Published: March 15, 2010 NEW DELHI — When Madan Lal began work here among the madness, color and chaos of the Janpath pavement, Richard Nixon was in the White House and there wasn’t a main street shop anywhere in the world selling computers. At the age of 15 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=969&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cow slaughter bill runs into opposition in K’taka</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[( Samatha ) Our thoughts are about how this bill could be within the basic principles of constitution ? Food habits is subjective and personal. Government passing draconian laws on this invites state tyranny, because now the state can make arrests based on false claims of cow slaughter or beef eating. This is a blow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=959&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s reservation Bill &#8212; A Compendium</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Samatha) There is lot of expectations about Indian women setting the standards of our parliament once the &#8220;Women&#8217;s Reservation Bill&#8221; is passed. No doubt, this should usher in an era of gender equality at a political level. First of all, politics has become the exclusive domain of the rich and the powerful thanks to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=944&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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 [...]<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 [...]<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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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Source: Counter Currents Samatha 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 [...]<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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		<title>Dalit Issues ( HRW Report )</title>
		<link>http://samatha.in/2009/11/26/dalit-issues-hrw-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Source : Human Rights Watch PDF Version of the Report : hidden-apartheid Samatha 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=913&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[Samatha 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 An innocent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=899&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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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		<title>Caste Discrimination in Karnataka flood relief operations</title>
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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 religious [...]<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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samatha.in&blog=4485553&post=879&subd=samathain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Al Jazeera (Samatha) 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 [...]<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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		<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 [...]<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>
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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 [...]<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 [...]<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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