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From December 2024 Onwards: CJP raises alarm over escalating anti-Dalit atrocities to NCSC
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) sends complaint to the NCSC, shedding light on widespread anti-Dalit atrocities across the nation and calling for justice for the victims of systemic discrimination.
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Manual Scavenging continues unabated, Indian Govts turns a deaf ear to acknowledge this systemic, extreme violence
Even as Supreme Court directs governments to meet to discuss implementation of a central law, abolition of manual scavenging, a callous system has a lukewarm response
Bloodbath on Baisakhi: The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, April 13, 1919
Ninety Seven Years Ago, one of the bloodiest actions of British Rule was the calculated massacre of close to 2,000 innocent Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims at the Jallianwala Bagh. The firing was ordered by an officer of the British colonial power, General Dyer. While the official figure for lives lost was 1,526 the actual figure was reportedly much higher
Jyotiba Phule’s Trenchant Critique of Caste: Gulamgiri
First Published on: 11 Apr 2016 On his 189th Birth...
Complaint to NCSC over Bihar Police assault on minor Dalit boys for playing music at Holi
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In its complaint, CJP has informed the Commission that the police, unprompted, beat up the Dalit boys and their mothers came to save them, beat them as well
Study Reveals Inequity in PM-JAY Implementation, Fails to Reach Most Vulnerable Sections
Analysis published in Lancet Regional Health shows discrepancy in health insurance utilisation among EWS in India
Gujarat: 3 lose their lives and 2 hospitalised from toxic sewer gas exposure; investigation launched
Second incident of death due to asphyxiation reported in two weeks, is this a sign of state negligence?
Dalit Scholar of Wardha University faces threat to life & career
With his PhD being unfairly held up, Rajneesh Kumar Ambedkar had to resort to a peaceful public protest; now goons have been brought in to threaten him and his protesting colleagues, even attacking them
While the OBCs are ripe fruit for electoral stakes, last 5 years reveals low representation in All India Services
Data provided by the union government in the upper house of parliament, Rajya Sabha shows over the last five years, representation of OBCs, Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Scheduled Castes (SCs) in All India Services has been low.
March 2023 Round up of attacks on Dalits
In the month of March Dalits across the country were stopped from entering temples, their homes burnt, assaulted for playing music and so on
Finally Dalit Christians in SC list, Valmikis as STs: YSR Jagan Reddy in Andhra
With these state government resolutions, Jagan pushes ahead with outreach to the marginalised; both groups backed the YSRCP to the hilt in the 2019 elections; Andhra CM also assures other tribal groups that inclusion of Valmikis won’t affect existing quotas.
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