Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes

resources and maintaining quality of soil, air and water; 3. Contributions to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund or any other fund set up by the Central Government for socio-economic development and relief and welfare of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, other backward classed, minorities and women; • CSR Projects need to be identified and planned for approval of the CSR Committee, with estimated expenditure and phase wise implementation schedules, if the project size requires stage-wise

and Harijans are today increasingly adopting the term “Dalit” as a name for themselves. “Dalit” refers to one’s caste rather than class; it applies to members of those menial castes which have born the stigma of “untouchability” because of the extreme impurity and pollution connected with their traditional occupations. Dalits are ‘outcastes’ falling outside the traditional four-fold caste system consisting of the hereditary Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra classes; they are considered impure

political" to all citizens. The Indian Constitution has additionally embraced measures for the security of the privileges of the religious and ethnic minorities and of the socially and economically burdened classes, for example, the scheduled classes and scheduled tribes. For example, 1. Reservation in employments, education and in numerous different fields 2. Cultural and educational rights 3.

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT ASSIGNMENT SUBMITTED TO : Dr. SHASHI RANI DEV : Mr. SUDHIR MASKE SUBMITTED BY : QUAMRUL HUDA CLASS : MSW-III SEMESTER TOPIC : MARGINALIZED PEOPLE IN INDIA- SCHEDULE CASTE INTRODUCTION Marginalized people are those people who are excluded from the society or society’ s people don’t provide them opportunity for integrating them because of this they leg behind in social as well economic progress. We need two kinds of identity for

have a thing in common- they all share a history of injustice. The present paper explores within the larger framework of human rights in general and how tribal rights are being violated particularly in India. PAPER According to oxford dictionary “tribe” is - A social division in a traditional society

HAVE A THING IN COMMON- THEY ALL SHARE A HISTORY OF INJUSTICE. THE PRESENT PAPER EXPLORES WITHIN THE LARGER FRAMEWORK OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN GENERAL AND HOW TRIBAL RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED PARTICULARLY IN INDIA. PAPER ACCORDING TO OXFORD DICTIONARY “TRIBE” IS - A SOCIAL DIVISION IN A TRADITIONAL SOCIETY

India is a South Asian country where people hold various castes and religions. After India gained independence, the Constitution of India listed backward castes of the people as Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). The Constitution laid down 15% and 7.5% of vacancies to government aided educational institutes and for jobs in the government/public sector, as reserved quota for the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes candidates respectively for a period of five years, after which the situation

nearly one hundred million tribal people. These numbers are matched only by the remarkable diversity of India’s tribes. The two main regions of tribal settlement are the country’s northeastern states bordering China and Burma, and the highlands and plains of its central and southern regions. The latter is home to more than 80 per cent of the tribes, which differ from the northeastern tribes in ethnicity and in having experienced greater “intrusion of the Indian mainstream and of the pan- Indian model

Reservation Policy, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, reserved categories, under privileged candidates, protests, General Community. Reservation is a process in which some particular advantages are given to a person in the field of education, scholarships, jobs and promotion or in other words it can be defined as a process of facilitating a person who has category certificates. Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other

memorisation of the content of the text by `rote’, all prove problematic for SC/ST children. Furthermore, the curriculum itself as a tool of cultural dominance and hegemony has an alienating and intimidating impact. Curriculum and the Scheduled Castes: For the Scheduled Castes who have sought education as a mechanism to transform as well as enter “mainstream” (read dominant) society, the central questions are of representation of their knowledge and culture and the critiquing of dominant knowledge and