Union Budget 2012-13 Response from Dalits and Tribals Dalit Arthik Adhikar Andolan/NCDHR* The Total Plan Expenditure of Union Budget 2012-13 BE is Rs.3,99,011 cr. For Special Component Plan (SCP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) Rs. 37113.03 cr. and Rs.21710.11 cr has been allocated which is altogether 9.3% (SCP) and 5.4% (TSP) as compared to the legitimate allocation of …
Loot of SC/ST funds in last year’s Union Budget
Karthik Navayan A February 2011 press release of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights Dalit Arthik Adhikar Andolan says: * Once again UPA Denies SCs Rs.Cr. 24,570 in Scheduled caste Plan and STs Rs.Cr. 10530 in Tribal Sub Plan * Together for SCs & STs, allocates only 4.03% for in both Plan and Non-plan budgets *The …
Special Component Plan for Scheduled Castes and Tribal Sub Plan funds – An Appeal
Special Component Plan for Scheduled Castes and Tribal Sub Plan funds – An Appeal 17/02/2012 To Shri Kiran Kumar Reddy Honorable Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Subject: Special Component Plan for Scheduled Castes and Tribal Sub Plan funds – an appeal for a two days discussion on this subject in two houses of the Andhra …
Please Sign Petition to Install Dr .B.R. Ambedkar portraits in all Courts and all Police Stations in India
Please sign the following petition at the ipetitions site, here. ~~~~~ To Mr. Salman Khurshid Minister of Law and Justice, 4th Floor, A-Wing, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi-110 001 Subject: Install Dr .B.R. Ambedkar portraits in Supreme Court, all Benches of High Courts, all Lower Courts and all Police Stations in India
Reforming Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan (SCSP) / Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP)
Recommendations on Reforming Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan (SCSP) / Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) — National Advisory Council [The Working Group of the National Advisory Council (NAC) on Dalit Issues have prepared a set of Draft Recommendations to be considered by the National Advisory Council on the reform of the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan. These Draft Recommendations are …
Lokpal: Salient features of the Lokpal bill
NEW DELHI: The following are the salient features of the proposed anti-graft Lokpal bill introduced by the government in the Lok Sabha on Thursday: LOKPAL AND ITS ROLE The bill proposes to establish autonomous and independent institutions called Lokpal at the central level and and Lokayukta for states. These shall have powers of superintendence and …
Joint declaration and global call for action to eliminate caste-based discrimination
A Statement from the International Dalit Solidarity Network forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission We, over hundred Dalit activists and social movement leaders from the caste affected countries of Bangladesh, India, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Senegal and Yemen, solidarity networks from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, members of International Organizations, …
Letter to Mr. Kapil Sibal, MHRD/ Regarding OBC reservation
To, Hon’ble Shri Kapil Sibal Human Resource Development Minister Government of India Subject: Regarding OBC quota implementation in Delhi University. Sir, We wish to draw your attention to the news item that appeared in different newspapers on October 7, 2011. The headline in The Hindustan Times says – HC asks DU to convert 50 vacant …
Constitution for inclusive policies
by Abusaleh Shariff There is nothing in the Constitution which bars identification of beneficiaries of public programmes based on religion. Of late, there has been a debate on whether public programmes such as school education, scholarships, health-care delivery and access to microcredit can be targeted at beneficiaries based on religion; some consider this ‘unconstitutional’ and …