Employment opportunity in Tata Consultancy Service for SC/ST Graduate and postgraduate students

What you have lost others have gained. Your humiliations are a matter of pride with others. You are made to suffer wants, privations and humiliations not because it was pre-ordained by the sins committed in your previous birth, but because of the overpowering tyranny and treachery of those who are above you. You have no lands because others have usurped them; you have no posts because others have monopolised them. Do not believe in fate; believe in your strength.

Babasheb Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

Source: The Daily Thandhi dt 3.10.2010

Private companies refuses to give reservation for SC/STs

It is your claim to equality which hurts them. They want to maintain the status quo. If you continue to accept your lowly status ungrudgingly, continue to remain dirty, filthy, backward, ignorant, poor and disunited, they will allow you to live in peace. The moment you start to raise your level, the conflict starts. Untouchability is not transitory or temporary feature; it is eternal, it is lasting. Frankly it can be said that the struggle between the Hindus and the Untouchables is a never-ending conflict. It is eternal because the religion which assigns you the lowest status in society is itself divine and eternal according to the belief of the so-called high caste Hindus. No change warranted by change of time and circumstances is possible.

Babasheb Dr.B.R.Ambedkar.

Source: The Financial Express dt 4.10.10
SC/STs should boycott the products and services of these companies. Government should contemplate to withdraw concession extended to these companies in allotting land ,water ,power and subsides etc. The government of India should bring legislation for compulsory reservation and banning of  recruitment of companies by their own caste people.  Political Parties working for the upliftment of SC/STs should urge the Government of India to bring legislation not for 5% reservation in private sector but in proportion to their population .
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SC/ST student's Hostels in Chennai are negleted

If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile and full of channels of conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. Babasheb.Dr.B.R.Ambedkar.

Filthy boys’ hostel puts many in hospital
N Venkatesan, a first generation college student from Kallakuruchi, came to Chennai with the hope of earning a degree. Unfortunately, he is now spending more time at the hospital than in the classroom, suffering from fever and various skin diseases, thanks to the poor standards of hygiene at the Ambedkar Adi Dravidar Government Boys hostel in Rajamangalam.

Over 500 students, all first generation learners, in the same hostel have been falling ill recurrently. Consequently, many of them are unable to attend college regularly. Students blame the sub-standard hygiene and food for their health problems.

The hostel is situated in an alley near the Rajamangalam Government Veterinary Hospital. A blue statue of Dr Ambedkar welcomes you, behind which one can see students bathing near a filthy tank. Once a day, a lorry fills the tank which is contaminated with garbage. “I have lived here for three years and not once have I seen the tank being cleaned. As a result, many students have contracted skin diseases,” said Venkatesan, a third year BA English student.

There are 16 dingy rooms and 20 students share each room. A walk through the corridors of the hostel is uncomfortable due to the stench emanating from the waste food dumped in the open. There are no garbage bins in the hostel. Students are asked to dispose waste in a common area. “Last week, a snake was found in one of the rooms. In summer, it becomes even more difficult to live in this cramped space,” said M Muthu, a final year student.

“The kitchen is situated near the toilet and is very messy. We lack proper drinking water,” said Arumugam, a second year student.

“Given the poor quality of food and accommodation, the students are unable to concentrate on their studies. Their performance has started deteriorating drastically. The government must step in and resolve issues quickly,” said M Ravichandran, head of the Department of English. He added that the students had submitted a complaint regarding their problems to the principal.

When contacted, warden Jagadeesan said he had assumed charge only recently and refused to comment on the pathetic state of the hostel. Vishwanath A Shegaonkar, secretary Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department, said that he would look into the matter and necessary action will be taken soon.
Source: The Times of India dt 2.10.10

Incredible India-The Land of Discrimination-Schedule Tribes losses faith in Goverment of Adhrapradesh and Goverment of India

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

Babasheb Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

Times of India-IMRB Survey In AP Throws Up Many Worrying Findings 

Source: The Times of India dt 28.09.10

The Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) plans to retrieve panchami lands by direct action

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.Babasheb Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

Forum plans direct action to retrieve panchami lands

The Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) plans to retrieve panchami lands by direct action after a State-level conference at Chengalpattu on September 30.
Talking to reporters on Tuesday, TNUEF convener P. Sampath said that the panchami lands distributed to the Dalits during British rule were under illegal occupation by non-Dalits. The government should verify the title transfers based on records available with the Registration department and take legal steps to redeem the lands and redistribute them to the Dalits.
The panchami lands measuring about 3.5 lakh acres classified as Depressed Class Conditional Lands should be owned only by the Dalits as per law but had been grabbed by the non-Dalits across the State.
The TNUEF has obtained information through RTI on the extent of panchami lands illegally occupied in many of the northern districts such as Kancheepuram, Villupuram, Vellore, Thiruvannamalai, Cuddalore and Tiruvallur.
A resolution identifying the lands to be retrieved in the next two months would be passed at the State conference following which the front would launch a struggle to retrieve the lands, he said, inviting political parties and organisations fighting for the Dalit rights to join hands.
TNUEF general secretary K. Samuel Raj, treasurer R. Jayaram and Gudiyatham MLA G. Latha were present at the press meet.
Source: The Hindu Dt 29.09.2010

Puthiya Thamizhagam Organising Agitation on December-6th

Our object in framing the Constitution is rally two-fold: (1) To lay down the form of political democracy, and (2) To lay down that our ideal is economic democracy and also to prescribe that every Government whatever is in power shall strive to bring about economic democracy. The directive principles have a great value, for they lay down that our ideal is economic democracy. Babasheb Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

State and Central Government SC/ST District co-ordination committee Appealed CIC to take action to publish the reservation rosters in Central and State Goverment Departmental websites

 “Given the time and circumstances, nothing under the sun shall stop this country from becoming a super power.Being grateful has limitations, no man can be grateful at the cost of his dignity, no woman at the cost of her chastity and no country at the cost of its freedom.I hope that Mr. Gandhi will not drive me to the necessity of making a choice between his life and rights of my people, for I shall never consent to deliver my people bound hand and foot to the orthodox for generations to come.” Babasheb.DR.B.R.Ambedkar


Shri A.Sundararaman in his letter Addressed to Central Information Commission has appealed to take action for publishing the reservation rosters in the Central and state government websites to maintain transparency .  The copy of the letter written by him is published here.  It is proposed by the committee to send a similar appeal to Secretary Dept of Posts and National SC/ST and Backward commission.

From: A.Sundararaman
Dt co-ordinator
State and Central Government SC/ST
Employees Dt co-ordination committee.
Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Illam,
23,Chidambaram Nagar,
Tamilnadu,
Pudukottai-622 001.

TO:- The Chief Information Commissioner
August Kranti Bhavan,
Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi - 110 066
Sub:-Publishing of Rosters in the Department  Website


Respected Sir,

This is regarding publishing information on reservation rosters in departmental websites. The department of posts maintaining circle and regional level websites for the benefit of general public as well as staff working in the department. The Right to information act is stipulated that all public authority maintaining all its records shall be made available in the websites.
This Association is observed that reservation roster being a record maintained at various level of the department to monitor the percentage of reservation given to SC/ST/OBC and PH in various cadres’ appointment and promotion is not published in the websites almost all websites of central and state government websites.

To promote the transparency and accountability in maintaining the rosters ,We request you to take necessary action in publishing the reservation rosters maintained by various authorities in the Departmental websites so as to bring the transparency in implementation reservation orders properly and in it is maintained in diligent manner as and when any recruitment made and promotion resorted to.

Since the act came into effect for more than 5 years the various departments of central and state governments are yet to publish the reservation rosters in the their websites. It is bring to your Kind notice that as per the following sections of RTI act-2005,

4(1) (b)(V) “Every public authority shall-Publish with in one hundred and twenty days from the enactment of this act, the rules, regulations ,instructions ,manuals and records, held by it or under its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions”.

4(2) “It shall be a constant Endeavour of every public authority to take steps in accordance with requirements of clause (b) of sub section (1) to provide as much information suo motu to the public at regular intervals through various means of communication, including internet, so that the public have minimum resort to the use of this Act to obtain information.

4( 3) for this purposes of sub section (1) ,every information shall be disseminated widely and in such form and manner which is easily accessible to the public.

We hope that CIC will prevail upon the various departments of central and state government and public sector undertaking to take sincere effort to publish the reservation rosters in all websites maintained by it as per the above RTI act.

Date:23.09.2010
Place:Pudukottai-622 001.      

Yours faithfully
Sd------------
(A.Sundararaman)