Dalits Media Watch News Updates 10.11.13 Dalit woman raped in Bhopal- The Times Of India timesofindia.indiatimes/city/bhopal/Dalit-woman-raped-in-Bhopal/articleshow/25531173.cms Bangalore has most manual scavengers in state- The Times Of India timesofindia.indiatimes/city/bangalore/Bangalore-has-most-manual-scavengers-in-state/articleshow/25405387.cms SC/STs take rapid strides, close literacy gap- The Times Of India timesofindia.indiatimes/india/SC/STs-take-rapid-strides-close-literacy-gap/articleshow/25536193.cms? Eight Dalits held for burning huts- The Hindu thehindu/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/eight-dalits-held-for-burning-huts/article5334004.ece The Times Of India Dalit woman raped in Bhopal timesofindia.indiatimes/city/bhopal/Dalit-woman-raped-in-Bhopal/articleshow/25531173.cms BHOPAL: Search for her missing husband landed a young woman in net of a rapist on the streets of the state capital. Failing to hear from her husband working here for three long months, the 26-year-old woman travelled with her new-born all the way from Rajgarh in his search. New to Bhopal, the dalit woman managed to find the shop were her husband worked. Promising to take her to her husband, the shop-owner instead took her to a house where he threatened to kill her daughter if she resisted and raped her. The incident took place on November 7. A case was registered in Jehangirabad police station on Friday. Around three months back, the womans relative had called her husband to work in a meat shop in Barkhedi area here. Since the woman could not contact her husband ever since he reached Bhopal, she came to the city and started search of him. When she found the meat shop where her husband worked, its owner Nafees Qureshi asked her to wait and told that her husband would come in some time. Later, the shop-owner took her to a house on a bike and committed the crime. When she objected, he hit her daughter, beat the woman and threatened to kill her daughter. The accused fled the spot after the incident while the woman managed to approach the police and got a case registered. The woman says she has no clue of the location where she was taken. Besides, rape case, the woman also lodged a missing person report about her husband. The accused has been arrested. The Times Of India Bangalore has most manual scavengers in state timesofindia.indiatimes/city/bangalore/Bangalore-has-most-manual-scavengers-in-state/articleshow/25405387.cms BANGALORE: Despite having the tag of an international city, Bangalore has the highest number of manual scavengers in the state. In the background of a central government directive, social welfare minister H Anjaneya said his department conducted a survey and found the city has 202 manual scavengers, followed by Kolar Gold Fields which has 87. The government has taken measures to ban manual scavenging and rehabilitate these persons, the minister said after the highpower committee meeting on SC /ST welfare headed by chief minister Siddaramaiah in the city on Thursday. On rehabilitation, Anjaneya said financial assistance will be provided from the BR Ambedkar Development Corporation to set up a business, for self-employment like buying an autorickshaw or taxi and a loan for buying land. The Times Of India SC/STs take rapid strides, close literacy gap timesofindia.indiatimes/india/SC/STs-take-rapid-strides-close-literacy-gap/articleshow/25536193.cms? The literacy rate among scheduled castes and tribes remains well below the rest of Indias population, but the gap has closed significantly in the last decade. During this period (2001-2011), ST and SC women made the most rapid progress, latest census data reveals. Data released earlier this week shows a 14.6 percentage point increase in literacy among ST and SC women over the decade, compared to a jump of 10 percentage points for non-SC/ST women. The literacy rate of ST men and SC men has jumped by 9.4 and 8.5 percentage points, respectively, compared to just 4.8 percentage points among non-SC/ST men. The pattern of SC and ST women showing a higher increase in literacy holds good across almost all states, and in both rural and urban areas. Of course, the base was very low to start with in the case of both women and men in the two communities, compared to the general population. In the case of ST women, the literacy rate was a shockingly low 34.8% in 2001 from where it jumped to almost 50%. The literacy rate of SC women, about 42% in 2001, increased to 56.5% in 2011. Among ST males, the literacy rate went from 59.2% to 68.5% by 2011 and among SC males it went up from 66.6% to 75.2% in the same period. The most remarkable improvement has been among ST women in Tripura, where the literacy rate jumped from 44.6% all the way to 71.6%, which is significant considering that STs make up almost a third of the states population. Bihar, with around 16% of its population comprising SCs, shows the biggest increase in literacy among SCs - a jump of 20.2 percentage points, from 28.5% in 2001 to 48.6% in 2011. There are some states where the increase in literacy rate among STs is well below the achievement at the national level, though the general pattern of STs and SCs showing better progress than the general population holds true. For instance, in rural Chhattisgarh, the increase in literacy among STs was just 6.6 percentage points compared to the national level change in rural literacy of 9 percentage points. Among rural SCs in Chhattisgarh too, the improvement in literacy (6.5 percentage points) is less than the national level improvement. However, it is higher than the states overall improvement of 5.5 percentage points. It is a similar story in rural Rajasthan. Many of the states with high literacy rates, such as Kerala and Mizoram, show smaller improvement in literacy. This is expected, once states hit literacy levels as high as 85% and more. However, in these states too the SCs and STs show greater improvement in literacy rate than others put together. The Hindu Eight Dalits held for burning huts thehindu/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/eight-dalits-held-for-burning-huts/article5334004.ece The district police on Saturday arrested eight Dalits, including a local functionary of the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), in connection with burning of huts at Athurnahalli village on Friday night. They were accused of trying to promote enmity between Dalits and caste-Hindus by burning the huts they themselves had put up and blaming it on a caste-Hindu. Police sources told The Hindu that the makeshift huts were erected by the Dalits on the land for which they were issued pattas in 1994. The entire land was acquired by the government from P. Sekar alias Venkatasamy (55), a caste-Hindu of the same village. Though the pattas were issued, the land was not divided and handed over to the Dalits. The land owner went to court in the year 2002 against the land acquisition and the judgment went in his favour in 2006. Subsequently, officials from the District Adi Dravidar Welfare issued a notice to the Dalits, but failed to cancel the patta. A month ago, the Dalits put up some huts on the land. It was alleged that district deputy secretary of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) M. Rajagopal had encouraged the Dalits to erect the huts and then set fire to them on Friday night. As soon as the huts were on fire, a complaint was lodged against caste-Hindus. On the basis of the complaint, the police arrested two persons, including Sekar. Superintendent of Police Asra Garg said they were released later after an inquiry found that these temporarily put-up huts were burnt by those who had lodged the complaint. Besides the VCK functionary, police arrested P. Muruguan (38) of Athurnahalli, K. Nagaraj (30) and K. Govindaraj (32)of Porathur, N. Palani (55) of Sengalbasuvanthala area in Jolikottai, M. Masamani (36) and M. Muthusamy (52) of Athurnalali and G. Perumal (30) of Porathur. They were produced before the Palacode Judicial Magistrate, who remanded them in judicial custody. Later they were lodged at the Salem central prison. Mahendramangalam police have registered a case under Indian Penal Code Sections 436 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house), 294 B (obscene act and songs), 143 (unlawful assembly), 506 (2) (criminal intimidation), 153 A (promoting enmity between two groups), 447 (criminal trespass), 211 (false charge of offence made with intent to injure) and Section 3 of Tamil Nadu Public Properties (Prevention of Damages and Loss) Act. P. Shanthi, District Adi Dravidar Welfare Officer told The Hindu that the district administration was in the process of sending a fresh proposal to the government to cancel the patta issued to Dalits in Athuranahalli village. News Monitor by Girish Pant
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