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November 10,
1999
Reservations
And Development OF The Scheduled Castes And Scheduled Tribes
When
you walk through the Corridors of the Central Secretariat, you find only the
faces and names of a few Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, other than the
dominant Sardars and other Ruling Classes. When I served India, during my time,
there were a good number of Anglo-Indians, Other Christians, Muslims, Parsis
etc, even though the presence of the SCs&STs were rare. But, today when
there is some presence of the SCs&STs, there is no Anglo-Indian, hardly any
Parsis, only a sprinkling of Muslims, a few Christians here and there, and some
black people - perhaps the other Backward Classes. This appears to be the same
story in various other Offices, Departments and Ministries in other Govt
Buildings.
This
was one of the important points made by an old English Man, a former ICS
Officer who had served India well for long, while summing up his observations
about a visit to the Central Secretariat, during a nostalgic trip to India.
Yes, the Depressed Classes who were fighting for a foothold in the Society from
time immemorial, were very active during the last days of British Rule. No
British Civil Servant, who had served India during those times, could ever
forget that easily. This retired British ICS Officer was no exception.
The
Depressed Classes, as the SC&ST Dalits were known those days, during their
long struggles were demanding not for a token foothold, but a formal
Representation in the Administration, due Presence in the Bureaucracy, full
Participation in the Govt, and for their Share in the Governance of the Country.
They were ably led by the well learned indomitable Baba Saheb Dr Ambedkar. It
is because of Dr Ambedkar’s Struggles, even in the face of severe threats to
his life and that of his followers, and in spite of the presence of strong
oppositions to his demands and scheme of thinking for the good of the Country,
well being of the People including the Dalits, and better future of the Society
including his own Dalit Sections that we find the SCs&STs present here and
there, at times noticeably even if not prominently, in the visible segments of
the Society, in the notable layers of the Bureaucracy, and in important places
in the Govt, like the Central Secretariat of the Govt of India at Delhi.
The
presence of some SCs&STs in Services, including the Central Secretariat at
Delhi is a fact, even though the SC&ST Communities have not yet really got
their Dues, or a real and true Share of Power or Responsible Part in the
Governance of the Country. Even
this small presence, has now become possible, only because of Dr Ambedkar’s
Statesmanship Vision Foresight, and his Insistence for Preserving and
Continuing in Free India, if not more, at least the moth-eaten Reservations for
the Depressed Classes, to which he was forced to agree by Gandhi in 1932, and
entered into a formal Pact, a written and signed Solemn Agreement with the
caste hindu leaders, on behalf of the Depressed Classes. It is this Agreement,
the Poona Pact which formed the basis of the Govt of India Act 1935, and the
Foundations of our Constitution. And it is these, and particularly because
of Dr Ambedkar and his Reservations - that while the Anglo-Indians, Other
Christians, Muslims, Parsis etc of the British India, have either faded or
vanished from the Central Secretariat, the then rare SCs&STs have gained some
presence in Free Independent India, the caste hindu dominated India, as many
Minority and Backward Class Leaders of those days including Dr Ambedkar also,
rightly predicted and feared. Even this small presence of SCs&STs in the
Central Secretariat today, is not a small achievement. And this, in short, is
what the Policy of Reservation has achieved.
Many
poor Backward Castes with Social Conditions, Economic and Political Standards,
comparable or at times at least in some ways bad if not worse than that of the
SCs, who in the early days of Independence of the Country refused and fought
bitterly against any proposal or suggestion or even an idea to include the
names of their Castes into the list of SCs, when the Govts in the States were
considering and enumerating various Castes to compile and declare the Lists of
the Scheduled Castes for the States, have come around and made a complete about
turn, clamoring for their respective individual Castes to be included in the
List of Scheduled Castes. They were primarily interested in getting the
advantages of Reservations and Special Development Programmes for the
SCs&STs, particularly in the spheres of good Education, especially
Professional and University Education, Employment and Promotions in Services, Financial
Assistances for Education and Development, such as the Grant of Scholarships
Fellowships Freeships Exemptions from Payment of
tuition/hostel/mess/examination Fees and to start Business/ setup
Shops/Factories/Industries etc, Grants for Studies Abroad, Admissions to
General or Special Students’ Hostels, allotments of Surplus Agricultural and
even Fallow or Waste Lands, Building Sites, Houses or Flats and Industrial
Plots/Sheds, Political Representations etc, through the Schemes of various
Reservations and Development Programmes meant for the SCs&STs.
The
demand by the Other Backward Classes and also many others, and their claim to
be declared as a SC, or at times at least as a ST, even by hook or crook was
going on silently almost all the times. This, even though they were all
otherwise publicly opposed to the SCs&STs, and were running the SCs&STs
down badly as if they were outsiders and their enemies. They were also
denigrating the SCs&STs, calling them names and humiliating them openly. The
others were opposing all forms of Reservations, specifically any assistance or
help by the Govt to the SCs&STs. And they were the bitter critics of the
whole Scheme of Reservations, particularly Caste based Reservations. They were
arguing that the Reservations should not be on the basis of Castes, even though
they were specifically asking for inclusion of their Castes in the List of SCs,
only and in order to get the benefits of Reservations for themselves and their
own Castes. In the public, they were always critical of Reservations, even when
demanding Reservations for themselves. Such were and still are, the double
standards of the hindu society. They were claiming that the
Reservations were there, and in fact were conceived only to please the
SC&ST Dalits, with an eye on the hustings. They were, as the caste hinds
today still are, cribbing that the Politicians upheld Reservations only due to
the compulsions of electoral necessities. They were all complaining that the
Political Parties and the Govts in Power supported and sustained the
Reservations, just for the sake of getting the votes of the SCs&STs, and to
preserve them as their Party’s solid Vote Banks. Thus, they were and others
are, so foolish even to criticise and blame Democracy, and the processes of
choosing the Peoples’ Representatives for sending them to the Panchayats,
Legislatives and the Parliament through Adult Franchise. In the end,
finding the doors of entry and inclusion of their Castes into the List of the
SCs closed, or at least closed tight, some of them came around to open a new
front or line of similar Reservations in the name of Backward Classes.
Constitution
facilitates the Govt to provide for, Reservations to Other Backward Classes,
who are not Represented in Govt. But the dominant castes who appropriate
everything and take all good things in life for themselves, have been
effectively and systematically blocking the Reservations for the Backward
Classes all these years. Many caste hindus, with a criminal bent of mind and
crooked attitudes, also began to impersonate themselves as SCs/STs to mislead
the authorities, just to take the benefits meant for the SCs&STs. Many of
them had gone up in the offices and in their lives. Many others, with the
connivance of the officials themselves, even today appropriate and continue to
enjoy the benefits meant for the SCs&STs, with the help of bogus SC/ST
Certificates they manage to obtain falsely, and or by falsification of facts,
about their birth or that of their parents, or just by paying bribes to the caste
hindu peons, clerks and the Caste Certificate Issuing Authorities in the States
and UTs. This, only because of the all round realisations that Reservations
really help, and help even the lowly placed, despised, marginalised, socially
suppressed, culturally physically politically, educationally and economically
oppressed weaker sections and communities like the SCs&STs. This also, in
spite of all the negative steps taken against the SCs&STs as well as the
Reservation Policy, and the severe oppositions and silent hurdles mounted in
the way of implementation of the Reservations by almost most those who are in
offices and positions of power and authority. Almost all the authorities and
other officials are totally opposed and are against the SCs&STs and their
Development, or are jealous and intolerant of the SCs&STs getting even an
iota of Progress, little Liberation, inch of Freedom, or at least a bit of
Justice.
Reservations
are really and truly beneficial not only to the people concerned like the
SCs&STs and OBCs, but also to the whole Nation and the Society for the
overall and just Development. Also, the Country’s Economy gets benefited, and
can achieve better and quicker results through all-round Growth and Progress.
Whatever may be the shortcomings and oppositions, or behind the screen
schemings that go against Reservations, the Reservations had served well, the
Nation and the Indian Society. With the part acceptance in 1990, of
Reservations for the Backward Classes recommended by the Mandal Commission,
Reservations have come to stay, in spite of all the fury and all-round
oppositions. Reservations now have become permanent. Nobody in the Country now
has the courage or the guts to scrap them, however much they may dislike
Reservations and or hate the SCs&STs and OBCs. Now, there is a flurry
of rush by individuals and castes to include themselves and their castes as
Backward Castes. This is an ample proof, for the reality that Reservations have
at last come to stay in our Country also. Reservations have been accepted by
all, as the sure means to develop even the badly disadvantaged despised and
marginalised sections of the society. In fact, the Reservations for long
have been recognised as a reliable mechanism to help the Weaker Sections of the
Society anywhere in the World. And there is no better Model, to Uplift the
Backward the Helpless the Marginalised and the Neglected Communities.
It is only for this reason that, there is so much of fury and oppositions to
Reservation Policy on the one hand, and the silent sabotage and subversions
that we see on the other in the actual implementation. The specific details of
Reservations, the mechanisms and processes of operating and enforcement of the
Reservations, are silently and cunningly derailed by those who are jealous and
intolerant of the Growth Development and Progress of the SCs&STs.
The
Reservations for OBCs had multiple effects. They are yet to be felt or realised
in full. But the immediate effects are that the dominant castes had lost their
control over the OBCs, and thus an effective tool to oppress the SCs&STs,
and focus their tirade against the Reservations for the SCs&STs. They had
lost an effective excuse to keep the OBCs captive anymore. They could no more
blame the Reservations for the SCs&STs and their growth, for all the
Backwardness of the OBCs, and the lack of Opportunities for the OBCs, which
they had deliberately not created or allowed to be made available. They could
no more turn the attention of the OBCs away from the fact that, they have
always been taking away the opportunities, shares and dues of others including
the OBCs, and thus have all along deprived the growth development and progress
of the OBCs. They could no more divert the anger of the OBCs against the
SCs&STs, to escape from the same. Hence they could no more succeed in
keeping the OBCs and the SCs&STs - the Deprived Sections of the Society -
divided, and hold down the SCs&STs by using the OBCs to keep the
SCs&STs suppressed.
The
dominant castes till now had only contempt for the SCs&STs, and had only
occasionally shown their intolerance and hatred for the Reservations They were
only Jealous of the Development of some SCs&STs in spite of all the
oppositions and hurdles for growth. They rarely had to deal directly with the
SCs&STs, or oppose Reservations by themselves. That task, they had
effectively managed to put on the OBCs. They were only operating from the back,
by manipulating the Details and the Methodologies of Reservations, and the
actual Processes of Implementation. Now, for the first time, they had to handle
the SCs&STs directly, and not only that have to face the OBCs fully, that
too almost on the side of the former. With the Reservations for the OBCs, their
hatred had increased, and the targets of hatred had enlarged from the just
hopeful expectant SCs&STs, to the restless and aggressive but at the same
time unorganised OBCs also. Now they had to confront both, almost at the same
time and on the same issues. At the same time, they had to also carry on by
themselves on their shoulders the burden of opposing the Reservations, and also
keep manipulating the Reservations, so that the Reservations don’t actually
benefit either the SCs&STs or the OBCs. They are thus actually playing with
fire. What will happen when the OBCs fully wake up, organise themselves and get
united? What will they do to face the fury of the organised OBCs? And what will
happen if the SCs&STs also join them? The dominant castes apparently are
not thinking beyond the immediate, and are making a great mistake. They should
quickly and amicably settle themselves in a just manner, while they still hold
the levers of power, without attempting to play one caste or tribe against the
other, the SCs against the STs, the SCs&STs against the OBCs, or any such
combination to buy time.
The
significant is the fact that the caste hindus have developed in their minds a
great fear about the grouping, coming together, possible unity, and combination
of the OBCs and the SCs&STs, at least as the Beneficiaries of Reservations.
But instead of finding a practical and lasting solution, they still want to
play their games. They don’t want change or mend their ways. They want to
continue with their manipulations. That is the reason why they have
Administratively and through the Courts, limited the Reservations for the OBCs,
to only Appointments in Public Services by Direct Recruitments alone, and not
in Promotions. Therefore, they want to avoid the OBCs and the SCs&STs
joining hands, and prevent them from fully coming together. Hence, they want to
preserve many areas of divergence between the OBCs and SCs&STs, and thus
the disunity and conflict, particularly in Admissions to higher and
professional education, at least in the Central Institutions and in Promotions
in Services.
Today,
the fear in the minds of the caste hindus had grown so intense that all the
dominant castes, almost without any exception, feel threatened that their days
are counted, and that their dominance now is really at stake. Therefore, even
some of those well placed fellows, and happy satisfied comfortable and self
contented individuals, who had in the past shown some sympathy for the poor
bright or the helpless and needy or capable and promising individual
SCs&STs, have no more empathy left in them for the later. Their fear is now
so great, intense and total. They are no more willing to help even the most
needy and deserving poor SC/ST. They are now totally opposed to the SC&ST
Communities, the Reservations for the SCs&STs, and the whole Scheme of
Reservations. As they are in power, and in full control of the Govt,
Bureaucracy, and the Administration of Public Affairs, the heat is increasingly
being felt now, by most of the SCs&STs.
WHAT
HAVE THE RESERVATIONS FOR THE SCs&STs ACHIEVED?
Many
things! And at the same time the Reservations had failed to achieve much more
essential things! They have proved to be a great disappointment to the
SC&ST Communities as a whole! They have failed the SCs&STs almost in
all the fronts and every walks of the life! It is not that Reservations are
bad, but those who have been called to work them have proved to be really bad!
The learned officials, the Public Servants of the Country, in whose hands the
responsibility of implementing the Reservations rest, have deliberately let
down the still poor and helpless SCs&STs! They really have no heart,
neither any compassion or concern for the poor helpless and the weak, nor any
interest in the Welfare Growth and Development of the People, the Society, the
Country and the Nation!
We
have adequate and reasonably reliable data on the Reservations for SCs&STs,
and there are lots of Reports and other Writings on their actual effects. But
sadly, after five decades of operations of Reservations for SCs&STs in free
Indian Republic - even if we neglect the period between 1935 Govt of India Act
and 1950 when the Constitution with Special Provisions for the SCs&STs
including various Reservations for the SCs&STs, in different and related
spheres of Politics Education Employment and Economic Activities, like
Development Growth Housing Welfare etc came into force - the achievements are
not really worth recounting. For, the Reservations have never been seriously
or sincerely enforced, except in Politics for Electing the Representatives of
the People to the Lok Sabha in Parliament at the Center, and the Legislative
Assemblies in the States. As a result, in the significant areas of Education
and Employment, there is nothing we can talk of proudly, or the Govt can take
credit of.
Today,
fifty years after Independence of the Country, there are only two SC
Secretaries to the Govt of India - one an IAS Officer, and the other the Law
Secretary to the Govt of India. There is no ST who is a Secretary to the Govt
of India. Not very long ago, there were about ten
SC&ST Secretaries to the Govt of India - about six or seven SCs and two or
three STs, and nearly half a dozen Additional Secretaries as well as more than
a dozen Joint Secretaries in the Central Secretariat. This situation instead of
showing an improvement to reflect the actual presence of the SCs&STs in
Public Services all over the Country, and development of an unbiased tolerant
Civil Society without any prejudices and biases or contempt against the poor
and the weak, had rapidly detoriated to the present sad situation of hardly two
Secretaries at the Center. And what is worse, there is no worthwhile effort to
improve the situation. On the other hand, there is a strong animosity
against SC&ST Officials, particularly against the intelligent hardworking
honest capable and result oriented ones. Practically every one of them
are suffering, have suffered and will suffer more and more problems in the days
to come.
Why
is this so?
The
answers are not far difficult to find. One need not even search for them. They
are readily available before us, and are clearly visible. They are obvious to
everyone. Both the Bureaucracy and the Judiciary have been gunning for the
SCs&STs, and the Reservations for them. They are aggressively intolerant,
jealous and have been openly working against the Development Growth and Welfare
of the SCs&STs. For reasons they can not clearly explain to themselves, or
honestly speak out, or perhaps out of total ignorance, or shear stupidity and
bull headedness, they are still opposing the Reservations for the SCs&STs
and OBCs. And what is worse, there is no more empathy towards the SCs&STs.
Today’s
Political Party Leaders don’t have any concern, or even show any lip-sympathy
towards the SCs&STs, even for public and political reasons. They feel that they
need not bother at all, or show any concern for the weak and the helpless, like
the SCs&STs, Backwards and Minorities. Hence they just don’t care now for
anyone. They are very sure that they can manage all of
them with out really doing anything good or positive for them. They think that,
with the help of a few captive leaders in their parties from these marginalised
groups, or by some clever manipulations of the different leaders, weaker
sections and their votes, and also by other devious methods and dubious means
of managing the elections, they can win and capture power. Under these
circumstances what else or what more can then we find?
REPRESENTATIONS OF SCs&STs IN PUBLIC
SERVICES
SCs&STs
taken together form nearly 26% of the Indian Population. In absolute numbers
they are more than 260 million today. It is not only significant, but is a very
large Population. Most of the Nations, barring China and India are not that
big. But such a large People have no place or Representation in the Country even
today. In fifty years of the Indian Republic, there was only one Vice
President, and only just now we have a President from the SCs. There has never
been anyone in these Offices from the STs. During the same period, there were
hardly two or three Tribal Cabinet Ministers at the Center. There has never
been a SC or ST Prime Minister. Able, capable, efficient, intelligent, honest,
hardworking, sincere, very senior and prospective Ministers, and probable or
sure SC/ST Candidates, who would have perhaps proved to be the best/ most
successful and deserving Prime Ministers the Country could have ever produced,
have been pipped or pulled down and sabotaged at the final moments of reckoning
many a times. Hardly ever been there any SC/ST Chief Minister in the States and
UTs, and the rare ones also were not allowed to stay in office even for one or
two years. The only exceptions have been in the inevitable North Eastern
States. There too, the SCs&STs of Manipur and Tripura have a very bad
experience to narrate.
In
thirteen Planning Commissions that we have seen so far, there never was a
regular SC Member, and only one ST was a Member, twice with tenures of less
than one year and five years, from 1990 to 1991, and again from 1991 to 1996.
The Planning Commission of India at the Center, surprisingly does not yet have
a Separate Department or even a small Cell for either the SCs&STs taken
together, or for the larger group of the SCs, or for the special groups of STs,
even though the conditions of the SCs&STs are pitiable all over the
Country, and is going from bad to worse with each
passing day, as the overall Planning and Development of the Country, Market
Forces, as well as the growing numbers of greedy social elements are squeezing
and forcing the SCs&STs out, even from their own traditional lands and
homes. This may be surprising and strange, given their population of more than
260 million now, almost evenly spread all over the Country, save for the North
Eastern States and the Tribal Concentrated Belts and Pockets here and there on
the sub-continent, and their abject poverty of homelessness, landlessness,
assetlessness, powerlessness, massive illiteracy, extensive superstition,
systematic suppression and planned oppression. But this is not at all shocking,
given the still prevailing prejudices and biases in the Indian Society,
particularly in the hindu mind against the SCs&STs.
The
Representations of the SCs&STs in the Judiciary are woefully poor, and that
again shows the prevailing awful animosity against the SCs&STs in the minds
of the so called learned Judges, and other highly placed Jurists Authorities
and the Govt, who choose consider select recommend and make appointments of the
Judges, especially to the High Courts in the States and also to the Supreme
Court of India. Some of them are not only against the
SCs&STs as Judges, but are openly and blatantly against the SC&ST
Communities as a whole. With such animosities biases and prejudices, what type
of Justice can they do or what sort of Judgements will they deliver? No one has
yet made any study of the damages they have done to the creative hardworking
SCs&STs, and thus to the Country. In fifty years, there were only three
SC Judges in the Supreme Court at different points of time, and not even one
ST. Now no one is there, and hardly anyone is likely to be allowed to come in
there in the near future. Such is the opposition against them. Hence, it is
no wonder that the Courts these days are openly intolerant towards SCs&STs,
or to hear their pleas. They throw out their Cases, don’t have patience or want
to listen anything from the SC&ST Lawyers, even for the sake of appearing
to be just and show off that they have heard the Case, and are doing and would
do Justice, both to the Lawyers and the Parties they represent in the Case
before the Court.
SCs&STs
IN ACADEMICS AND EDUCATION
The
Representations of the SCs&STs in Academics, either as Students or
Employees in Schools, Colleges, Universities, other Autonomous Institutions or
Centers of Higher Learning are still very poor. Thousands of qualified
Job-Seekers are deliberately refused employment in the Schools Colleges
Universities etc. Hundreds and hundreds of SC&ST Students aspiring for
higher studies are turned out every year denied admissions, or even after admissions
are thrown out or forced to get out under some pretext or the other from the
Colleges, Universities, Autonomous Institutions and other Centers of Higher
Education. The caste hindu Lecturers and Professors are both unwilling and are
actually incapable of teaching the SC&ST Students, unlike the British who
produced the likes of Dr Ambedkar during those days itself.
The
Opportunities for Studies Abroad available to Indian Students are by and large
still kept as a secret from the SCs&STs, even though hundreds of Indian
Students are to be found in many Foreign Countries with various Scholarships
and other Schemes that help them to pursue their studies abroad, without taxing
their families. Even Dr Ambedkar’s Dream of educating select SC&ST Students
Abroad, accepted by the then British Indian Govt, has been badly twisted beyond
recognition by the Welfare Ministry over the years. A similar Scheme of
Dr Ambedkar Overseas Fellowships for Students to study abroad, through Dr
Ambedkar Foundation has been in the cold storage for quite sometime, and many
students already selected for the Award of the Fellowships have not been
permitted to avail of the Fellowships. A silent effort is said to be in the
offing, to turn it as a facility only for SC&ST University and College
Teachers already in job. Thus, the Scheme meant for the Students is being
distorted, and at the same time, the UGC and other authorities would be washing
off their responsibilities in providing opportunities to Train Abroad, the
SC&ST Lecturers and Professors working in the Colleges and Universities.
Thus by one change, two opportunities available to SC&ST Students and the
SC&ST Teachers are now being cleverly and silently closed.
The
numbers of SC&ST Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, Readers, Assistant Professors,
Associate Professors, Professors etc in the Colleges, Autonomous Colleges,
Universities, Deemed Universities, Research Centers and other Institutions of
Higher Learning in the Country are extremely poor. One can have a taste of
this, when we find that in the whole of Delhi, the Nation’s Capital, barring
the Govt Engineering and Medical Colleges to which Recruitments are made by the
Union Public Service Commission and the Appointments by the Govt, today there
are only five Professors - One SC and One ST, a respectable total of Two
SC&ST Professors in Delhi University, Two SC Professors in JNU, and one SC
Professor in the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. This in spite of the
fact that, Delhi attracts professionals scholars and teachers from allover the
Country. Yet, the authorities have managed successfully so far to keep the
SCs&STs at a very far distance away from Delhi. In this, the negative role
being played by the University Grants Commission etc can not ever be discounted
or forgotten.
The
UGC is not even allowing or facilitating the SC&ST Students to acquire the
requisite Higher Qualifications of M Phil and Ph D essential for Teaching in
the Universities and Colleges. They do not provide them any Scholarships and
Fellowships to pursue these long and costly studies. The Govt and the Ministry
of Social Justice and Empowerment is not helping the poor SC&ST Students
wanting to go for such essential higher studies. The caste hindu Professors and
Universities are also doing their best and contributing their shares in denying
the SCs&STs admissions to these courses, and also in rating them
deliberately lower so that they do not become eligible for teaching, even if
the SC&ST Students manage to do these essential higher Courses. Such is the
situation in the Country today.
Perhaps
India is the only Nation in the World where the Teachers instead of teaching
the poor are denying them education, instead of equipping them with knowledge
are condemning them, turning them as unfits and deliberately rating them low.
In fact this has been the history of India. One could not ever afford to forget
Egalivya.
The
Representations of the SCs&STs in Govt Services, even on the overall
reckoning is extremely poor, in spite of operating the Reservation Systems for
the last fifty years. And this, with so many brilliant and highly educated and
qualified SCs&STs, duly examined and certified so, by all those caste hindu
controlled Universities and Educational Institutions, always knocking at the
doors of the Govt Offices and various Recruiting and Appointing Authorities for
Jobs and Employment. The overall
Representations of the SCs&STs in the Central Govt Services allover the
Country, as on 1st January 1995 are –
10.15% SCs and 2.89%
STs in Group A(Class I) Services and Posts
12.67% SCs and 2.68%
STs in Group B(Class II) Services and Posts
16.15% SCs and 5.69%
STs in Group C(Class III) Services and Posts
21.26% SCs and 6.48%
STs in Group D(Class IV) Posts
Even
in the Group C(Class III) Services and Posts, the Representations of the SCs
and STs in the higher grades are very very poor. Even
these small Representations of the SCs&STs in Services, most of the caste
hindu authorities are unable to tolerate and digest. They therefore, go after
the blood of even these small numbers of SCs&STs in Service.
All
the observations and empirical data available today indicate that, on an
average more than 90% of Vigilance Cases are against the Employees and Officers
who are weak, susceptible and are vulnerable, such as those about to retire,
due for promotions, and are SCs&STs. And what is more surprising is that,
more than 60% of the Employees and Officers facing Vigilance Cases, or are
under Suspension, caught up in Inquiries, suffering Punishments of loss of
increments, reduction in pay or pay-scales, withheld increments, withheld
promotions, denial of promotions, downgrading in rank or termination, are the
helpless and godfather less SCs&STs. Since these are Vigilance
Cases, none is generally forthcoming or are in a position to extend any helping
hand to them. The Departments and senior officials are also in a position to
casually and carelessly brush aside their pleas and representations, without
even taking a cursory look at them and their cases. But, the losses, being
suffered by so many SC&ST Employees and Officers all around, and their
Families in Physical, Psychological, Mental, Social and Financial Terms are
immense and colossal. In fact it is a serious and major economic loss to the Country
and a criminal wastage of well qualified highly trained productive responsible
and useful manpower. And only this caste ridden Country can afford the luxury
of wasting so much of scarce valuable assets and resources, that too
deliberately.
Those
who get poor Assessments, Reports, Gradings, and hence as a result miss their
Promotions often times and repeatedly, are almost exclusively the SCs&STs.
This, in spite of the fact that, many of them have been recruited through All
India Competitive Examinations by the UPSC or other Commissions/Agencies. It is
often an humiliating experience for them, which get further compounded, when
they find that they have lost the race for promotions and seniority, to those
who are far far juniors to them in service, and many times to those who are not
even qualified and are from the ranks, but have managed the promotions only
because they are caste hindus and hence are well connected having direct access
to their seniors who matter, either directly by themselves or through their
families or with the help of other relatives, friends, or the ever important
caste circles.
In
the sphere of Sweeping, a category of cleaning jobs as Sweepers, an area and
occupation exclusively Reserved by the hindu society for the SCs, others are today
making inroads edging out the poor SC Sweepers, even when they are unwilling to
work as Sweepers. They are coming in as Sweepers, not to Sweep and work as
Sweepers, but to take by hook or crook a well paid Govt Job in Govt Offices,
where they can easily and safely avoid work, if they even otherwise choose not
to work or don’t want to work. These others, are coming in dubiously as
Sweepers, to get into Govt Service with a clear intention and motive of quickly
migrating into other areas or cadres of Service within the Office. For them,
the job of a poor Sweeper is a convenient backdoor entry into Govt Offices,
which they are otherwise unable to enter for want of requisite education,
training, experience, intelligence, capabilities and such other qualifications
required for direct recruitment to the jobs they desire to take. Hence their
attempts to take jobs of Sweepers is farce, and is a fraud on the Sweepers and
Govt. They therefore, always refuse to work as Sweepers even for a second, and
avoid touching the broom ever, even though they had applied for and joined
service as Sweepers, hold the job of Sweepers, mark attendance as Sweepers,
take salaries as Sweepers, ask for special facilities as Sweepers and
promotions as Sweepers. Once in the Govt Offices as Sweepers, these others with
the open support help and connivance of their caste hindu superiors hold for
namesake the job of Sweepers. They are never asked to do any work as Sweepers.
Even when they are allotted or have to do the work of Sweepers, they become benami
Sweepers. They get their work done through other Sweepers in the office, or act
informally as Sweeping Contractors or Suppliers of Casual Manpower for Sweeping
on their behalf the offices as also for keeping clean the premises and the
areas allotted to them for cleaning, for a paltry token payment which they pay
from out the full Govt Salaries they take as Sweepers.
In
many offices, the system of exploiting and cheating both the Govt and the poor
lowly paid Sweepers has been formalised, and the caste hindu Contractors are
given regular Contracts to Supply Casual Sweepers regularly to the office, or
get the sweeping done on a regular basis on Contract. These Contractors, employ
a very small number of Sweepers, fully exploit and force the Sweepers to do the
work of many, and pay them far less wages for carrying out the day to day job
of sweeping and keeping the premises clean.
It
is because of the ingenious dubious practices, cheating and exploitation of the
helpless Sweepers, by the educated and well employed superior officials, and
the realisation of the same by the regular Sweepers, the regular Sweepers are
on an un-noticed continuous strike, and they are now adopting a non-cooperative
go slow tactics, that they don’t take their work anymore seriously. Thus, the
quality of their work is poor. Hence the sweeping work suffers. It is because
of these that, the maintenance of Cleanliness and Hygiene in Govt Offices and
their surroundings are very poor, and the Corridors awfully stink even many paces
away from the toilets and waste bins anywhere, that sensitive and conscious
individuals cannot pass by them easily.
Unless
the Govt makes peace with the Sweepers, genuinely and sincerely look into their
grievances, end all forms of cheating and exploitations, and put a complete
stop to the present dubious methods of employing others, the overall
cleanliness and hygiene not only in the Govt Offices but in the Country will
suffer very very seriously, particularly when we take into consideration the
peoples lack of consciousness and attitudes of not maintaining general
cleanliness in their places of work/living and surroundings. They require a
separate class of people to work as Sweepers, and maintain their homes, work
places and surroundings clean, on behalf of themselves and the whole society.
With
acceptance of some Reservations for the OBCs, consolidation of the OBCs which
was inevitable and taking place even before the Reservations for them was
accepted, and the growing consciousness of the SCs&STs, the caste hindus
are today a worried lot. Even then, they don’t want to rest, or change and mend
their ways. They don’t want to adopt reasonable just and fair Civilised Methods
of working, and managing the affairs of the society. Since the caste hindus are
still in positions of power, and always speak for the Nation, on behalf of the
Nation, as if they are the Nation, they adopt such policies and practices that
it appears the Nation is hitting back at the SCs&STs, the OBCs and the
Reservations. Yes, they are under attack, and the attacks
though systematic severe and total, are meted out silently. They are being hit
below the belt and in the back at unexpected times.
It
is the considered opinion of the SCs&STs and the OBCs that, the Country had
adopted the path of Liberalisation, Globalisation, opted for opening up the
Economy, and had slowly begun the privatisation and selling of the Public
Sector Govt Enterprises built up so laboriously over a long period, with the
hard earned money and great savings of the people, only because they want to
avoid Reservations at any cost, and are unwilling to part with the Jobs and
Employment there, rightly due to the SCs&STs and OBCs.
The caste hindus are palming off, as if on silver platter even the profit
making PSUs. Thus the PSUs which have formed the core of the Nation’s Economy,
the base of the Country’s Self Reliance, the Pride of the People and the
Foundations of National Development, are either being dismantled or passed off
into private hands and to the Indian or Foreign Multi-National Corporations,
only to reduce the Govt’s Role and eliminate the PSUs, and hence the
availability of the Jobs therein, which were till now available to the Public,
and would therefore now be subjected to Reservations to the SCs&STs and
OBCs. It is to avoid this, and still deny jobs with a decent salary and
livelihood to the OBCs and the SCs&STs, that caste hindus are wanting to
close, sell off, hand over the PSUs to the private sector, including foreign
Multi National Companies.
As
a result of the above, the SCs&STs and OBCs today are foxed. There are
in principle, on paper, Reservations for them in Employment and Jobs, but in
practice there is no Employment Opportunities and no Jobs! The Govt Offices and
PSUs themselves are vanishing! Employment and Job Opportunities are shrinking
sharply and abruptly for the Public. Private Sector Companies do not believe in
Public Employment. They make recruitments silently and privately, with out
any knowledge or information to the public. Even if there is any information,
the claims of the public are crudely brushed off and set aside. For, they make
appointments based on personal contacts and through their own private and
secret arrangements.
STEPS TO INTEGRATE SCs&STs INTO THE
MAIN STREAM?
The
SCs&STs are now at the Cross Roads. Their hopes and aspirations are getting
frustrated. Their sufferings and miseries are on the increase. They don’t see
any signs of change. And there is no such possibility in the near future. The
atrocities against them, the crude criminal premeditated oppressions and
offences in the Rural Areas and Urban Slums, the sophisticated silent planned
white collar suppressions by the educated superiors in Educational
Institutions, Govt Offices etc are rapidly on the increase. Their patience is
already running out. They may now go in any direction, and take any path. One
side, they want to stick to the Path of Peace and Constitutional
Methods, shown to them by Baba Saheb Dr BR Ambedkar, and follow his ways. They
clearly remember his exhortions –
If
we wish to maintain Democracy, not merely in form but also in fact, what must
we do? The first thing in my judgment we must do, is to hold fast to
Constitutional Methods of achieving our Social and Economic Objectives. It
means, we must abandon the bloody methods of Revolution. It means that, we must
abandon the method of Civil Disobedience, non-Cooperation and Satyagraha. When
there was no way left for Constitutional Methods for achieving Economic and
Social Objectives, there was a great deal of justification for Unconstitutional
Methods. But, when Constitutional Methods are open, there can be no
justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but
the Grammar of Anarchy, and the sooner they are abandoned the better for us.
On
the other hand, will the SCs&STs stray away in
future from the Constitutional Methods of achieving the Economic and Social
Objectives of the People, the Aspirations of the Society, the Goals of the
Nation and the Dreams of the Founding Fathers of the Constitution pointed out
by their Messiah Dr Ambedkar, and opt out in frustration to Unconstitutional
Methods of Change and bloody Revolutions warned by Dr Ambedkar himself many a
times? The signs of these are already in air, in various pockets in almost
different parts of the Country. Will SCs&STs radically choose to
alter the Economic, Social and Cultural Orders of People in the Society, and
the Political Structure of the Country, or go for balkanizing and break away
from the Nation, as we see many frustrated impatient Sections of various
societies are already doing in different parts of World? Will there be Social
Unrest endless Law and Order Problems, as we already experience, in our Cities
and Metropolises? Will there be an avoidable Civil War? We don’t know!
The real answers to these unanswered potentially dangerous and virtually
explosive questions, ultimately depend upon the choices the Society makes and
the Govt Leaders now take, to establish a just fair and equitable Economic
Order and build an Egalitarian Social Structure. And it needs to be thought
as to what can We the People or the Govt, the Country, the Society and the
SC&ST themselves do? We have to find an answer, and find it quickly. For,
the time is really running out for all of us and the Country as a whole.
What
we need more urgently now, is not Liberalisation of the Economy but Liberation
of the People, the downtrodden the weak and the marginalised; not Globalisation
of our Economy but Universalisation of Human Rights in favor of the poor and
the helpless like the SCs&STs.
The
SCs&STs are poor weak marginalised and powerless. They need Education and
Employment. They want Development and Growth. They are still to get their
Independence and Freedom. They are eagerly looking forward to the Day of their
Deliverance. They are seeking Liberty and Equality. They have waited all these
days with great hopes and patience. They are now demanding Justice and Human
Rights. They want Human Rights and Life with Dignity. They are thirsting for
Individual Recognitions and Equal Opportunities. They are asking for Self
Respect and Fairness in Social Life. They need Good Jobs and Decent Salaries.
They look for Helping Hands and Respectful Wages alright. But they may not wait
for long. They cannot afford to pay bribes or bring in influences and
recommendations in their favor. Hence, there is a need to implement the
Reservations honestly fairly and in full. There is also a need to force the
private sector companies and the Indian and Foreign Multi National Companies,
to make their Recruitments and Appointments public and fair, through open
advertisements and without any secrecy. They should be asked to give
Representations to different Sections of the Society. After all, these are the
ways of any Civilised Nation and all Civil Societies of the World. Secret
Selections and Private Appointments based on personal contacts and private
considerations are not the ways of a decent World.
If
Reservations here in the Country are the due Rights and Shares of the
SCs&STs and the OBCs in the Nation Building, Administration and Governance
of the Country, even in the Mecca of the Free World and the fountainhead of all
the new waves of Liberalisation and Globalisation sweeping the World now, there
is Affirmative Action for the Blacks enforced by the Govt. This Affirmative
Action has now been proudly accepted by the Private Sector there. The American
Educational Institutions, Universities, Seats of Higher Learning and Centers of
Research, and also the big powerful and rich MNCs there, are vying with each
other to show to their Society and the World their achievements in this
respect. Why should the caste hindus here then not honorably accept their own
educated sisters and brothers from the SC&ST and OBC Communities? Why
should they resent the SCs&STs and the OBCs even today, or feel jealous of
the alters’ progress or become envious of their development? And why should
there be oppositions to the Reservations that only seek to provide the
SCs&STs and the OBCs their proportionate share of Education, Jobs and other
Opportunities in Life in the Country? Why should anyone, any reasonable or
rational individual crib? One really does not know.
The
caste hindus are now forcibly taking away, what they used to silently steal all
these days. Now they are openly grabbing the shares and dues of the SCs&STs
and also the OBCs, in the name of Excellence, National Interest, National
Security, Defence, Science, Technology, Research, Higher Studies, Super
Specialties, Development of Excellence to International Standards, rapid or
accelerated Economic Development, Opening up the Economy, Privatisation,
Liberalisation, Globalisation, Structural Adjustments, Financial Discipline,
and the frauds of their Special Merits and Efficiencies. These are nothing but
an open fraud to cheat the people, shield and cover up all their inefficiency,
blatant nepotism, shameless favoritism, violation of rules and regulations as
well as the norms and procedures/precedences, open corruption, lack of respect
for fair open honest selections/recruitments/promotions and appointments. The
repeated jokes they are trying to play on the Country is the Superiority and
Respect to, as well as the need and compulsions of having to abide by the
decisions of a pack of caste hindu individuals, who have reached their
positions due to their closeness proximity and compromises with those they were
and are in positions of power, with the right political authority to select
appoint patronize backup and promote them all along the line.
The
latest cruel joke of caste hindus is that, they are all now waking up after
fifty long years, to talk about the need to produce and support the specialists
in the making, comparable to International Standards, but only from the
dominant castes. What were they doing all these five
decades? What happened to all those meritorious sons and daughters of theirs,
whom they freely selected all these years, saying that no suitable SC/ST was
available, and without giving any Reservations to the OBCs?
Why should they get this urge now, when the SCs&STs have already grown up
to become Specialists, and are doing extremely well in Serving the Country with
out fleeing to foreign shores, and as the OBCs are getting their Opportunities?
Even now, why don’t they produce such International Class Specialists from
their top most meritorious scholars? Why do they need to grab or take so
blatantly the Opportunities of the SCs&STs and OBCs? Why do they want to
deny the poor SCs&STs and OBCs admissions to higher studies, professional
courses and super specialties, and give these admissions to their third rate
scholars who could not make their grade by themselves, competing with their own
fellow colleagues freely and fairly, but come at the last, much behind their
own caste individuals? Do they have no faith in their most meritorious fellows,
who come at the top in the assessment of merits as per their own methods,
standards of evaluations and the scheme of norms and scales? Do they want to
play a game of choices, and gamble on those who miss out in the race, that they
want to bring them in the places of the SCs&STs and OBCs? Would they then
wait, hope, pray, or dream that at least one of their third-rate scholars, who
had come in through the back doors, to the professional and super-specialty
courses, in place of the poor SCs&STs and OBCs, to become an International
Expert par-Excellence? Should we or can anyone believe them? Still, they try to
fool the Country the SCs&STs and the OBCs? Have they gone crazy, or are
they such big fools or so stupid to think that the SCs&STs and OBCs are
such fools that they can buy their arguments and keep quiet?
Govt
should now come out with a Comprehensive Reservation Policy for the whole
Country covering Govt, Public Sector Enterprises, Banks, Financial
Institutions, Colleges, Universities, Centers of Higher Learning and Research,
other Educational Institutions, Autonomous Bodies, Non-Governmental
Organisations, Voluntary Organisations, and Private Enterprises including
Indian and Foreign Multi-National Companies in the Country.
LAW ON RESERVATIONS for the SCs&STs
and OBCs
SCs&STs
of the Country strongly feel that there is no point in believing and trusting
that the caste hindus in the Govt, in Govt Offices, and the Courts would ever
be honest to implement the Reservations in an honest and fair manner. Hence
there is a need to bind them legally. The present Reservations are only Govt
Orders, Departmental Rules and Regulations, and Office Memorandums. They are
easily flouted, and also can be conveniently changed. Therefore, the Govt of
India should bring in urgently, without any further delay a comprehensive
Reservation Bill, and enact a Law on Reservations. This Reservation Law should,
amongst other things provide for –
Incentives
and Financial Assistances to individual SCs&STs, wanting to pursue Higher
Studies, particularly Post Graduate Studies in Professional Spheres like
Architecture, Engineering, Medicine, Management, Law etc, and take up Advanced
Courses like M Phil, Ph D and Post Doctoral Studies and Specialist Trainings.
Incentives
and Financial Assistances to the Families, for encouraging individual
SCs&STs to pursue Higher Studies.
Incentives
to individual Teachers, Professors and Officials for encouraging helping developing
and training SC&ST Students, Professionals, Employees and Officials.
Incentives
to Schools, Colleges, Universities and Government Departments/ Ministries/
Public Sector Enterprises, Banks, Financial Institutions, Autonomous Bodies and
Private Sector for teaching employing and encouraging SCs&STs.
Penalties
for the Teachers, Professors, Officers and Schools, Colleges, Universities,
Offices and other Establishments who/which do not follow and fail to implement
the Reservations, and discourage SCs&STs.
Reservations
in all Govt Offices, Public Sector Enterprises, Banks, Financial Institutions
and Autonomous Institutions without any exceptions.
Reservations
in every Public Service, Post, Grade and Level, right from the top most Public
Office to down below, without any exemption whatsoever.
Reservations
in all Educational Institutions Govt or Private, in Admissions of Students and
Scholars, and also in the Recruitments and Promotions of Teaching Faculty as
well as the non-Teaching Staff.
Reservations in the
Joint Sector Organisations.
Reservations in all
Establishments where the Govt and the Public have a share.
Reservations
in all Establishments which make use of Public Facilities created with Public
Funds, or created for the use of the People.
Reservations
in all Establishments making use of Land and other Natural Resources of the
Country.
Reservations in
Employment in all Private Sector Establishments.
Reservations in all
Courts, including Law Officers and the Judiciary.
Lateral
Entry of SCs&STs into various Services and Cadres at higher Levels Grades
and Posts, to improve and ensure their full Representations at every level Free
mobility of SC&ST Professionals and Academicians, between and across Govt,
Bureaucracy, Administration, Public Sector, Joint Sector, Private Sector,
Voluntary Organisations and into the Universities.
This
Reservation Law should be placed in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution,
and be beyond the purview of the Courts. The People are Sovereign in a
Democracy. India is a Democracy, a Socialist and Secular Democratic Republic.
Hence the People, their Representatives and the Parliament have the ultimate
Power to make Laws. The Courts can legitimately interfere on behalf of the
People when the Govt fails to act and Govern or Govern properly, but can not go
against the People, the will of the People, and poke their nose into the
Parliament. Otherwise it will be a sad day for the Country, the Society and the
People. Of late, the Courts have been interfering too much and too frequently
against the SCs&STs, their Development and with the Reservations for the
SCs&STs, and the Govt Policies and Procedures in this regard.
WHAT SHOULD THE GOVTS AT THE CENTER AND
THE STATES/UTs DO?
It
is high time that the Govts take some specific steps and positive action beyond
Reservations. Fifty-three years of Independence had already passed. Fifty years
after the establishment of the Republic, had also rolled by. We have wasted
precious long time. We can not afford to sleep any further. Otherwise, the poor
people would soon lynch us all alive. It is necessary to think what we need to
do, and at the sametime act fast. Honestly speaking, we have not yet really
started thinking of Development of the Weaker Sections. We have only been playing
soft balls with them all these days. Let us get serious now, at least a bit.
The Govt of India therefore, should bring in the learned SCs&STs and
thinkers amongst them, to chalk out real Plans and Action Programmes for their
Social, Economic and Cultural Development. It is only they, who can understand
the needs and aspirations of the SCs&STs. As Baba Saheb Dr Ambedkar had
long ago rightly said, it is only the servile class who can lead them.
Definitely not their antagonists, nor the class room city products of just the
Universities, or those with foreign education, or WB and IMF trainings and
mandates. The Govts at the Center and the State/UTs should at least now
establish –
National
and State Level Administrative and Professional Training Establishments for the
SCs&STs, to develop and improve their Administrative and Professional
Competence and Capabilities.
National
SC&ST Housing Finance and Development Corporations.
National
and State/UT Level Centers for SC&ST Development.
National
and State/UT Level Task Forces, for Entrepreneurship Development amongst the
SCs&STs.
Separate
Tribunals to look into and expeditiously dispose off the Cases of SC&ST
Employees.
Separate
District Level Courts to expeditiously hear and decide the Cases of SC&ST
Lands taken away by others.
Special
Judicial Commission to exclusively look into the Judgements of the various Judges, who have a tendency to
decide cases against SCs&STs, and make specific recommendations to the Govt
to protect the interests and Welfare of the SCs&STs A Special Committee to
visit and look into the working of SC&ST Student Hostels and make
appropriate Recommendations to the Govt to improve the Conditions and Working
of these Hostels.
The
Govt at the Center should also Institute –
Awards
for Selection, Recruitment and Promotion of SCs&STs, similar to those for
the physically handicapped.
Recognition
of Individuals and Institutions, working for the Development and Integration of
the SCs&STs.
Special
Insurance Schemes, to protect and also provide succor and help to the
SCs&STs, from suspensions terminations and non-payment of salaries and
wages.
A
Cadre of Rural Welfare and Labour Officers, to look into and expeditiously
solve the Grievances of the Workers in the Rural Areas and in the Unorganized
Sectors.
Special
Social Security Schemes, for the SCs&STs, especially the educated and
unemployed.
Special
Tax Concessions, to SCs&STs to educate their Children, and for sending them
for Higher Studies or Studies Abroad, and or for Specialist and Advanced
Courses and Trainings.
Special
Concessions, to SCs&STs for building their own homes, to eliminate the
slums and the growing problems associated with them that dehumanizes the
people.
Special
Schemes and Concessions to SC&ST Entrepreneurs taking up self-employment,
starting their own business, and setting up their own industries Special
Programmes, to harness and utilise the talents, knowledge and experiences of
retired SC&ST Professionals, for the Development and improving the
Standards of Life of the SC&ST Communities.
The
Govt should also regularly Constitute an High Power Committee, at least every
two years, to review the Allocation, Utilisation, Appropriation and Diversion
of the Funds meant and Budgeted for the Education Welfare and Development of
the SCs&STs both in the States/UTs and at the Center.
Similarly,
in the STATES and UTs also, appropriate Committees should be constituted, to
look into the Funds earmarked, actually made available, utilised, surrendered
and or diverted by the STATE/UT Govts, Zilla Parishads and down at the Village
Panchayats.
GOVT
SHOULD REGULARLY REVIEW, ASSESS and CHANGE from time to time, both the LONG
TERM and SHORT TERM SC&ST Schemes and Programmes to EVOLVE better Schemes
and Programmes. There should also be Schemes and Programmes, evolved and
structured to suit Specific Communities/ Castes/ Tribes, and also sub-Castes,
sub-Tribes and Part of the Castes and Tribes living/ settled in different
areas. This is absolutely necessary, in view of Large Scale Migrations due to
Education, Employment, Search of Livelihood and for Survival; and also the
Uprooting/Shifting/Relocation of whole Villages, Communities and the people of
different Regions, particularly the STs and also the SCs of many small pockets,
as a result of Development Programmes and Mega-Projects.
GOVT
SHOULD CLASSIFY the SCHEMES and PROGRAMMES meant for the SCs&STs, into
specific Categories. Adequate Funds have to be separately earmarked for POVERTY
ALEVIATION, AMELIORATIVE, ASSETS CREATION, WELFARE, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT,
EDUCATION including grant of various Freeships Scholarships Fellowships and
provision of Hostels and Messes, ENTREPRENEUR DEVELOPMENT, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
for Purchase of Land/ House Building/ Starting Business, and for Establishing
Cottage/ Mini/ Small-Scale/ Medium/ Big/ Large Industries, and such other
identifiable SCHEMES and PROGRAMMES. Similarly, FUNDS SHOULD BE SEPARATELY
BUDGETED, ALLOCATED AND RELEASED to NGOs run by others for the Welfare and
Development of the SC&ST Dalits, to NGOs headed or patronised by SC&ST
Leaders and Individuals, and to NGOs run and personally managed by the
SC&ST Dalits themselves. Their utilities and effectiveness must be
carefully assessed, separately in different Areas and Regions, and for
different Schemes and Programmes, for taking up timely and appropriate
corrective and remedial actions, and for a better utilisation of the funds and
maximisation of the results. Only this could ensure a real help to SCs&STs,
today at different stages of life, and in various levels of development and
growth in different Regions and Parts of the Country. The present Practices of
allocating Consolidated Funds, and leaving them in the hands of Govt Officials
who are only interested in their jobs, perquisites and or the privileges of
their offices and future/ promotions; or in supporting, helping and patronising
their friends, relatives, colleagues, neighbors etc, are not going to deliver
any results, or ever Develop and Liberate the SC&ST Dalits still living and
believing in this Country and the Govts.
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