Dalits Media Watch
News Updates 19.07.12
Minor Dalit girl raped; villagers block JSpur road- The Pioneer
'Political corruption' drives dalit leader to commit suicide in UP- The Times Of India
'Fakir Vaghela failed to utilise dalit funds'- DNA
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_fakir-vaghela-failed-to-utilise-dalit-funds_1716188
Classmate cut our hair, say students- The Times OF India
On Maya turf, Dalits refused temple entry- Hindustan Times
Ten dalits injured in clash- IBN Live
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/ten-dalits-injured-in-clash/1024599.html
The Pioneer
Minor Dalit girl raped; villagers block JSpur road
Hundreds of residents of Dhanipur, Tarikunda, Jayasola and Ranahata villages on Tuesday afternoon resorted to road blocked on the Cuttack-Jagatsinghpur State Highway at Dhanipur Chhak demanding arrest of the person who allegedly raped a minor Dalit girl. The girl is now undergoing treatment at the District Headquarters Hospital here.
The victim is daughter of Khokan Bhoi of Ranahat village and the accused a married man of Balia village under Biridi block, who was a regular visitor to the victim's house.
On Monday, the accused approached the girl's mother, an Anganwadi Worker, to take the girl to his village, to which the woman agreed.
As the girl did not return home in night and the accused could not be contacted, the girl's mother lodged an FIR at the Jagatsinghpur police station. On Tuesday morning, the girl was spotted near a tea shop near the Astastambha temple at Hajipur, and the locals brought her to her house. The girl complained of internal bleeding, after which she was shifted to the hospital.
After the news spread in the locality, hundreds of people converged at Dhanipur Chhak and staged the road blocked demanding arrest of the accused.
The police rushed to spot and assured the agitators that the accused would be arrested in three days' time. The road blocked was lifted at 5 in the evening.
The Times Of India
'Political corruption' drives dalit leader to commit suicide in UP
LUCKNOW: In a shocking and one of its kind incident, a political activist committed suicide in the collectorate premises of Azamgarh district on Monday as a protest against corruption in politics and hypocrisy of public representatives. The deceased was a dalit leader associated earlier with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and at present was the member of the newly floated Ambedkar Samaj Party.
According to Azamgarh police, 65-year-old Baliram Prasad, who was a former BSP functionary and at present associated with Ambedkar Samaj Party, sprinkled kerosene and set himself ablaze in the Ambedkar Park within the collectorate compound. He was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to injuries. The act left people shocked in the collectorate. Eyewitnesses told police that the entire incident happened within minutes. They doused the flames but by that time Baliram had suffered serious burn injuries.
DNA
'Fakir Vaghela failed to utilise dalit funds'
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_fakir-vaghela-failed-to-utilise-dalit-funds_1716188
The state social justice and empowerment department has failed to spend over 60% of grants it received to construct Ambedkar Bhavans for dalits in all talukas of the state. This has come out in a reply to an RTI query filed by Kirit Rathod, RTI activist and programme coordinator of Navsarjan, a group working for dalit rights.
Demanding suspension of minister Fakir Vaghela, Rathod has revealed the financial details of the department to the governor, Dr Kamla. He alleged that one of the few scheduled caste ministers in Narendra Modi government, Vaghela is of no use in the welfare of the schedule caste community and should be removed from the post.
Information that Rathod could get through the RTI Act revealed that out of the total Rs16.17 lakh allotted for the construction of the Ambedkar Bhavans in the districts, Rs10.34 crore is lying unused.
Talking to DNA, Rathod said that it is very unfortunate that a dalit minister has failed to utilize funds meant for the welfare of the Dalits at the district level. The state government had made the provisions to construct these Bhavans since the financial year 2004-05, however, since then the department has failed in utilizing the funds.
The maximum fund was allotted in the year 2007-08 (Rs5.01 crore), while Rs2.56 crore has been kept unutilised for this year. The application had been submitted at the governor house on Monday.
The Times OF India
Classmate cut our hair, say students
BANGALORE: A day after a Dalit organizationalleged that a private school in Bangalore had forcibly cut the hair of Class 1 children admitted under the RTE quota to distinguish them from others, the children on Wednesday admitted that a mischievous classmate had cut their hair.
On Tuesday, the Dalita Samrajya Sthapana Samiti had claimed that Oxford English School in Nandini Layout of North-West Bangalore was discriminating against children admitted in the 25% quota mandated by the Right to Education Act. The Samiti accused teachers of cutting the children's hair, not giving them homework and marking their attendance, making them sit on the last bench and checking their lunch boxes.
By Wednesday morning, mediapersons were talking to the children and their mothers at the Samiti office to figure out what exactly had happened.
When two children, whose hair had been cut, were asked who had done it, they said: "Sagar (named changed). Asked who he was, they said, "He's our classmate."
Their angry mothers quickly butted in: "What was the teacher doing when a boy cut my child's hair? Today, it's hair. What could it be tomorrow? They're not attending to our children at all."
Next, Samiti members brought forward a girl and pointed to a healed wound on her forehead. The child said: "Suresh (name changed) did that to me. I was shaking the desk and he asked me not to. I shook it again and he pricked my forehead with a pencil."
D Narayan, the Samiti's founder president, opened blank notebooks of the children and alleged that the children were not being taught anything. "The teacher doesn't talk to them. They're made to sit on the last bench. Their names are not called when attendance is taken," he alleged.
"These children are not being given homework. When we ask teachers, they say 'Just help them practise alphabets and numbers'. We're not allowed into the school. When we raise an issue, they say: "Bring it up at the parent-teacher meeting," said Reshma Banu, a mother of a student.
Hindustan Times
On Maya turf, Dalits refused temple entry
A Shiva temple in Greater Noida's Sunpura village allegedly turned away a group of Dalit women devotees who had come to offer prayers there on Tuesday.
The temple is barely a few kilometers away from former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Dalit icon Mayawati's home. The police, however, ruled out a caste angle and said it's a case of personal rivalry.
Tuesday was an auspicious day of Mahashivratri.
Thousands of devotees came to the 500-year-old temple to offer prayers. According to the officials, the Dalit women and their children were waiting in the queue when Dharamvir Giri, the temple priest, asked them to step out and leave the temple premises.
This angered other Dalit devotees present at the temple.
"They got involved in a heated argument," said Jagdeep Nagar, director, Osho Seva Sansthan.
The Sunpura village has been cordoned off to avoid any violence, Ashok Kumar, SP (rural), said.
IBN Live
Ten dalits injured in clash
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/ten-dalits-injured-in-clash/1024599.html
Chandauli (UP), Jul 18 (PTI) Ten dalits were today injured in a clash with members of another backward community over a land dispute in Naugarh area, police sources said here. 60-year-old-dalit Moti Chand, a resident of Khutahan village, had mortgaged his land to Ramtahan, they said. Ramtahan forwarded the possession of the land to one Baggi Yadav for agricultural use. Last week, Moti returned the mortgage amount to Ramtahan and freed his land, they said.
However, Yadav brought nearly two dozen people and started ploughing the land to claim his ownership, the sources said. When Moti and his family members protested, Baggi along with his supporters allegedly assaulted Moti Chand, his wife Dulari Devi (45), his son Sanjay (25) and Shiv Kumar (28). Two of Moti's relatives and four other persons were also assaulted by Baggi and his aides, the sources said. The situation was brought under control by the police and the injured were admitted to a government hospital at Chakia after which one of them was later referred to a hospital in Varanasi, Superintendent of Police Krishna Mohan said. Security has been tightened in the village to prevent any further untoward incident.
.Arun Khote
On behalf of
Dalits Media Watch Team
(An initiative of "Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre-PMARC")
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Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre- PMARC has been initiated with the support from group of senior journalists, social activists, academics and intellectuals from Dalit and civil society to advocate and facilitate Dalits issues in the mainstream media. To create proper & adequate space with the Dalit perspective in the mainstream media national/ International on Dalit issues is primary objective of the PMARC.
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