Sc And St

Most SC/ST candidates fight without the backing of a political party

Indicative data shows a decline in the proportion of SC and ST candidates who participated in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections compared to previous elections

LS elections: INDIA bloc govt will uplift OBCs, SCs, STs, says MK Stalin

DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday expressed confidence of the INDIA bloc winning the Lok Sabha polls and said the new dispensation will fulfill the pledge to uplift Other Backward Classes, the Scheduled Castes and Tribes. Tamil Nadu has played a pivotal role in championing social justice, Stalin said in his address at the social justice conference (Samajik Nyay Sammelan) held by Samruddha Bharat Foundation in the national capital on Wednesday. The Chief Minister's address was read out at the conference by DMK Rajya Sabha MP, P Wilson. The DMK chief recalled the era of the Justice Party government, dating back to 1921 and said it stands as a beacon of social justice with the introduction of reservations for the underprivileged through the communal G.O (Government Order). Post-independence, "amidst threats to the reservation system," the resolute protests by the Dravidian movement, famously known as "the happenings in Madras," catalysed the first ...

Congress wanted to give SC, ST quota to Muslims: PM Narendra Modi

He said the Congress' actions betrayed that it didn't respect either the Constitution or B R Ambedkar, while he was dedicated to protecting the sanctity of that document

Monsoon session: No plan to release 2011 caste census data, says govt

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said that the central government has not enumerated caste-wise population other than SCs and STs in census since Independence.

The forgotten promise of India

Fundamental rights explicitly guaranteed by the Constitution are being casually eroded in the garb of religious freedom laws

One in every three under-trial prisoners in India is either SC or ST: Study

The report also finds that certain states have strikingly higher levels of disparity between the percentage of SC/STs in their total population and in their prisons

Govt must ensure education, nutrition and sanitation for SC, ST: Niti CEO

He emphasised that physical infrastructure is also necessary for providing education, nutrition and health facilities to SC/ST