Dalits Media watch News Updates 24.01.15 Odisha teacher lands in jail for tonsuring minor student - Orissa sun Times odishasuntimes/109805/odisha-teacher-lands-jail-tonsuring-minor-student/ SC, ST students protest, allege discrimination by PU special cell - The Times Of India timesofindia.indiatimes/city/chandigarh/SC-ST-students-protest-allege-discrimination-by-PU-special-cell/articleshow/45978101.cms NGO wants relief for Dalits attacked by group - The Hindu thehindu/news/national/tamil-nadu/ngo-wants-relief-for-dalits-attacked-by-group/article6817447.ece Subir Roy: What does life hold for a rag picker? - Business Standard business-standard/article/opinion/subir-roy-what-does-life-hold-for-a-rag-picker-115012301519_1.html Orissa sun Times Odisha teacher lands in jail for tonsuring minor student odishasuntimes/109805/odisha-teacher-lands-jail-tonsuring-minor-student/ Reported by Malay Ray, Sundargarh, Jan23: A lady teacher of a government school in Odisha’s Sundargarh district was arrested and forwarded to court on Friday morning for allegedly tonsuring a student half bald in the class room about 17 days ago. Feeling humiliated and insulted after the incident, the 14-yr old tribal student has gone missing since then and has not returned home. One Kartika Majhi, a tribal and resident of Bileigarh area, lodged an FIR in Rajgangpur police station on Wednesday that his son, who studies in Class VIII in Bileigarh Project Upper Primary School, had gone missing since January 6 as he was shaven half bald by Jaysmita Sa (35), a teacher in the classroom in front of his class mates. Complainant Kartika Majhi has also mentioned in his FIR that another student was also given the same treatment by class teacher Sa inside the classroom on that day. Based on the FIR, Rajgangpur police on Thursday interrogated Sa and arrested her on Friday. Sa was forwarded to court after being charged under sections 341 & 355 IPC and section 3 of the SC, ST Act by the police. Sa was sent to judicial custody after her bail plea was rejected by a local court. “Accused Jaysmita Sa has been arrested and forwarded to court under sections 341 & 355 of IPC and section 3 of SC, ST Act. We are searching for the child and investigations in the case are on “, said S P Das, IIC, Rajgangpur police station. According to sources, on finding two class VIII students disturbing the class on January 6, Sa cut their hair and made them half bald, following which Katika’s son felt insulted and did not return home after the class ended. When his son did not return home, Kartik came to know about the incidentand informed school authorities about it. A meeting was held at the school and authorities had assured him that they would search for his son. When his son did not return even 15 days after the incident, he lodged anthe FIR in the police station. The Times Of India SC, ST students protest, allege discrimination by PU special cell timesofindia.indiatimes/city/chandigarh/SC-ST-students-protest-allege-discrimination-by-PU-special-cell/articleshow/45978101.cms TNN | Jan 22, 2015, 03.16PM IST CHANDIGARH: Members of Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) on Wednesday staged a protest outside the Panjab University (PU) vice chancellor office and alleged discriminatory attitude on part of PUs Special Cell for SC/ST - especially against students coming from Haryana. ASA president Gurdeep Singh said that the SC/ST cell of PU was not following guidelines of the University Grants Commission. We met the registrar, Col Guljit Singh Chadha, who assured us to redress the problems of SC/ST students within two days, Singh added. ASA also demanded the transfer of SC/ST cells superintendent Chandarkanta. ASA, in its letter to the vice chancellor - a copy of which was sent to the chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes - said that it had been receiving complaints from SC/ST students of harassment by various departments and SC/ST cell, PU. The Hindu NGO wants relief for Dalits attacked by group thehindu/news/national/tamil-nadu/ngo-wants-relief-for-dalits-attacked-by-group/article6817447.ece M. Balaganessin Evidence, a Madurai-based non-government organisation, has urged the State government to pay compensation to three Dalits allegedly attacked by a group of persons belonging to upper caste at Manganur village near Gandarvakottai near here recently. The three Dalits – Marimuthu (70), Rajasekar (29) and his brother Prabakaran (27) – were attacked by a group of persons belonging to upper caste community near the panchayat union middle school in the village on Saturday. Previous enmity between the two communities was said to be the reason behind the attack, according to police sources. Of the injured, Marimuthu has been admitted to Thanjavur Medical College and Hospital. A fact-finding committee from Evidence, after a visit to the village, said that refusal of the Dalits to beat the ‘thappu’, a percussion instrument, during a funeral procession is said to have triggered the issue. Irked over their decision, the upper caste Hindus took objection to the brothers, Rajasekar and Prabakaran, visiting a temple. Based on a complaint filed by Prabakaran, the police registered a case under Sec. 147 (rioting), Sec. 341 (wrongful restraint), Sec. 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and Sec. 506 (1) (Criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and Sec.3 (1) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Three persons, R.Marimuthu (23), S.Ganesan (24) and S.Sivamani (23), have been arrested and remanded to custody. The police have also registered a case against a group of Dalits, based on a complaint from Thamaraiselvan, alleging that they had damaged a tea stall in the village. Rs. 2 lakh relief Katheer, executive director, Evidence, said that a relief of Rs.2 lakh should be sanctioned to each of the injured. Further, the Dalits should be allowed to enter the local temple said to have been constructed by the upper caste people. Business Standard Subir Roy: What does life hold for a rag picker? business-standard/article/opinion/subir-roy-what-does-life-hold-for-a-rag-picker-115012301519_1.html Subir Roy | New Delhi January 23, 2015 Last Updated at 22:40 IST The shanties along the railway line for local trains near Park Circus station in east Kolkata are not so different from similar encroachments across the country. Many of them are home to rag pickers, who occupy perhaps the lowest rung in urban Indias social ladder. They are mostly Scheduled Caste and Muslim landless labourers who have migrated from nearby districts in search of work. Across the country rural scavengers often escape to a better life in a city as rag pickers. This colony of rag pickers, who forage into garbage dumps across the city to fish out recyclables, has been there for decades now. One kindly light for some of them though is the Tiljala Society for Human and Educational Development, Tiljala SHED for short. Founded by a retired government schoolteacher, Muhammad Alamgir, it has for over two decades worked among rag pickers in mostly deprived slum-ridden east Kolkata, which has a large concentration of Muslims. Tiljala SHED was one of the 30 NGOs selected to participate in a daylong event in one of the nicer hotels in south Kolkata by Kolkata Gives. In the second such event in a couple of years, NGOs who make the cut (one criterion is a low expense ratio) were invited to man kiosks and the rich and the good of the city invited to come, see, select a worthy cause and be generous to its NGO backer. Mudar Patherya, one of the organisers, says immediate commitments of Rs 4 crore have been made and more is expected to come in with time. Tiljala SHED runs several programmes, but the flagship is one that covers 350 rag pickers and 50 ultra-poor families. It is supported by the German Roman Catholic charity Misereor. Just next to the shanties lining the railway line is a one-room school for rag pickers children in a proper recognised slum. They all go to government schools earlier in the day and in the afternoon come to this one which is more like a coaching class. They need this additionality as their parents are all illiterate and working most of the day. As we enter they all say in unison unprompted Good morning, sir, to have a teacher correct them to say good afternoon. It is a mixed age and ability setup with children forming several clusters pursuing different tasks. A teacher has a handful of children standing near the blackboard with him explaining simple arithmetic: If I have four bananas and two oranges and want to distribute it to two of you equally… The shanties are as makeshift as they come - but even then, some of them are two-storied! You enter and go to the upper level by a ladder. The clearance for both levels is low, you bend a little to get in, to sit or lie down. Sometimes two families share such a shanty. Levels of well-being differ greatly between shanties. Clearly at the top of the heap is Munni Molla, a grandmother and secretary of a self-help group. Her husband does paint jobs at Rs 400 per day. There is electricity to power a couple of lights, fans and a TV, at Rs 360 a month, plus Rs 200 per month for a cable connection to a dish antenna. Easily the apple of her eye is Nazia Khatun, her granddaughter of eight who has stood first in her class. All proudly point to a picture on the wall drawn by the little girl showing the teacher in her class holding a pointer to the blackboard. Munni Molla has an Aadhaar card and a bank account. The big recent event at the shanty town was a nationalised bank setting up camp to open around 250 Jan Dhan Yojana accounts. But the lot of the average rag picker is far different. A full family of grownups and children earns around Rs 300 a day by selling to aggregators what they collect. They dont save and spend all they earn right away. Addiction is widespread. The monsoon months are particularly bad as rain washes away the waste paper, a major recyclable, in the garbage heaps. One of the biggest disappointments of Tiljala SHED is the result of their attempt to teach rag picker women vocational skills like tailoring, making paper bags and processing spices. Rag pickers dont like regular routine like attending training classes and will refuse a cleaner job than what they do if it earns them the same as rag pickers. MNCs like Cognizant give away a lot of waste paper but it is a headache getting the rag pickers to land up at an office at the appointed hour to collect it. Even then, it is difficult to sell what the training centre produces. Shops say consumers prefer to buy branded packaged spices. News monitored by Girish Pant & AJEET
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