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*_HISTORY ⏰TIME📜_*
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*_👴Old Man in the Park..
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*_🐾🌾Once a businessman got caught in debt real deep and he was not able to think of any way out to sort out that debt. So one day he went out and sat in the park to think if he could do anything to save his company from bankruptcy._*
*_🐾🌾While he was sitting in park, an old man came to him and said to him, “I can see that something is troubling you..”_*

*_🐾🌾Businessman was sad and depressed so he told that old man everything about his problem while old man listened to him patiently._*

*_🐾🌾Old man smiled and replied, “I believe i can help you..”_*

*_🐾🌾Old man put his hand into his pocket and took out a cheque book and asked that businessman his name then giving that cheque to businessman, old man said, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly after one year from today and you can pay be back at that time..”_*

*_🐾🌾After handing that cheque old man got up and walked away. Businessman had mixed feelings. He looked at that cheque and saw that it was cheque of 500,000 $.. signed by Warren Buffet (richest man in the world)._*

*_🐾🌾Businessman realized that with half million he can easily get out of his debt but instead he decided to put that cheque in his safe and to use it only in case of emergency._*
*_🐾🌾With that cheque businessman felt more confident. With changed thinking businessman went back and in his business he was able to think better and negotiated better deals. He started reconstructing his business and worked really hard with full zeal and enthusiasm and with time got several big deals._*
*_🐾🌾Within few months businessman was able to get out of his debt and also started making money back._*

*_🐾🌾Year passed, as promised businessman returned to park after exact one year with same cheque which old man gave him. As agreed old man also appeared. Businessman was very happy to see old man and told him about his success story._*
*_🌾🦋As businessman was about to hand old man back that cheque.. a nurse came running up and grabbed old man by his hand and said “I am so glad i caught him.. I hope he hasn’t been bothering you much. He always escaped from mental hospital and tell people that he is Warren Buffet..” and Nurse took that old man away._*

*_🐾🌾Businessman was stunned.. All year long he was dealing with all this problems thinking that he had half million dollars with him.._*

*_⚜🌾Moral🌾: 👇👇It’s not just Money but our Attitude and Self-confidence that gives us Power to Achieve Anything we want._*
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Press release
To, 
Mr. Editor / Bureau Chief
To provide justice to Sneha Kushwaha, the siege of Uttar Pradesh Bhavan siege to the President, demanded justice from the Prime Minister 
A 17 -year -old minor student of Rohtas Sasaram, who was prepared for JEE, was prepared on 1 February 2025 at Rameshwar Girls Hostel of Bhelupur police station in Varanasi
After which his parents forcefully deliver the body after the post -mortemThe funeral is forcibly signed by the police
And for 10 days, FIR is not raised caste, there is an FIR on raising the voice of people.
Devendra Bharti President Kushwaha intellectual forum said that at whose behest the police are working, why the accused is engaged in saving the Uttar Pradesh police, the FIR has not been done properly and the sections and other sections of the pocks have not been added. 
Devendra Bharti saidThat we had siege Uttar Pradesh Bhavan Sardar Patel Marg Chanakya Puri on February 16 at 2 pm but the memorandum could not be given by the police due to arrest.
Today, on 17 February, we have given a memorandum to the President, Prime Minister's Office, Home Minister's Office, Government of India, and Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister, Director General of Police in this matter.
In which the following demands were
1. FIR in PoksoProvision should be included immediately
2. For a thorough investigation of this incident, immediately handed over the CBI and bring the culprit into the dock of justice.
3. Post mortem report should be handed over to the victim's family and the doctor should be done
4. Police personnel who do not handle the body of the victim properly and insulted her with her behavior and hooliganism should be refused with immediate effect.
5. Two crore rupees to the victim's familyEconomic assistance of
6. Security rules in girls hostels should be implemented actively.


Scope of SC-ST Act not restricted to person's native state: Bombay High Court

Scope of SC-ST Act not restricted to person's native state: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court stated that a person from a Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) will be protected under the Prevention of Atrocities Act anywhere in the country, irrespective of the state of their origin


The bench gave a 778-page judgment, noting that the prevailing caste system in India is a “peculiar and complex thing”. (Photo: File)
Vidya
Mumbai,UPDATED: Sep 1, 2023 22:04 IST

The Bombay High Court said on Friday that the identity of a person from a Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) cannot be restricted to his or her state of origin.

A person is entitled to the protection under the Prevention of Atrocities Act in any part of the country where the offence is committed, even if the person is not recognised as a part of the SC or ST community in that part, the court said.

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The court further stated that this kind of restriction would defeat the fundamental right given by the Constitution, as it would bind the person to their state of origin, with no chance to progress by stepping outside.

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The court was hearing a case with two questions to answer. First, if someone is from a specific caste or tribe that's recognized as a SC or ST in one place but not in other parts of the country, can they be charged with an offense under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, outside that place? And second, should appeals under this act be heard by one judge or a group of judges called a division bench?

A full bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere, Bharati Dangre and NJ Jamadar heard the arguments at length before stating that the Atrocities Act was enacted to prevent atrocities against the SC and ST communities. It was intended to remove humiliation and harassment meted out to members of a class, to ensure them fundamental, socio-economic and political rights, the court said.

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The full bench also held that all appeals filed under the Act, irrespective of the punishment, shall lie within the jurisdiction of the single bench of the High Court.

Advocate Abhinav Chandrachud, appearing for some of the appellants, argued that the offence under the Atrocities Act would not be attracted if the person (victim) had migrated from the State of origin to another State.

Maharashtra Advocate General Birendra Saraf, however, argued that the baggage of caste continues to be retained by a person and since the statute intends to offer protection from atrocities committed against a member of the SC or ST community, the offence under the Act would be attracted irrespective of migration.

The bench, while refusing to accept Chandrachud’s case, said, “the argument that caste shall be limited to the boundaries of a state would be a myth”.

“A person has no choice. It is not possible for the person to get rid of the baggage of his or her caste though he or she may come out of the occupational grouping or from the social status of that particular caste and become socially and economically forward surpassing his peers in the caste,” the court observed.

The bench added, “Neither by marriage, nor by conversion, can a person free himself of the caste barriers. And his sufferings cannot be said to have been wiped out by marrying a person from a forward caste. The label attached to a person born into a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe may continue, notwithstanding his personal upliftment, his social upliftment by his own good deeds. But he does not lose his identity and selfhood, as he has once upon a time suffered the sting and disadvantages, though he has travelled ahead in life.”

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“The Atrocities Act is entitled to protect the human dignity of the members belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe and in no case, deserves a restricted or constricted meaning, confining their status only to a particular State,” the judgment said.

The high court added that it would be committing a “serious flaw if it adopts a narrow and pedantic construction, which would stultify the intent of the law and impede its implementation”.

“This definitely would cause more harm to the identified class than advancing them to compete with members of the higher class and assisting them in achieving equality, as enshrined in the Constitution,” the court said.

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The bench, in its 778-page judgment, noted that the prevailing caste system in India is a “peculiar and complex thing”. It noted that the old caste system had a practice called "untouchability" in it. This practice separated Hindus, affected how they thought, and made them believe that touching or sharing food and water with people from higher castes would lower the status of those considered "untouchable." This belief led to the mistreatment and enslavement of these lower-caste individuals, who were often made to undertake menial work.

The bench said history reflects that by practicing untouchability, the upper caste kept the lower strata of the society at a distance and looked down upon them in the social structure. “No matter what form, the practice of untouchability assumes, it amounts to a degrading appellation for the people concerned,” the court said.

It added that the purpose of the Act was to prevent and discourage crimes against a particular group. It wasn't meant to give any special advantages or benefits but rather to stop them from experiencing offensive actions, disrespect, embarrassment, and mistreatment due to their historical, social, and economic circumstances, the court added.

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Rishabh Sharma

தி இந்து லோகோ

பஞ்சமி நிலத்தில் எஸ்சி விவசாயிகள் பயிரிட்ட பயிர்களை அழித்தது குறித்து செய்யார் துணை ஆட்சியர் விசாரணை நடத்துவார்.

புதுப்பிக்கப்பட்டது - பிப்ரவரி 19, 2025 12:32 pm IST - திருவண்ணாமலை

வந்தவாசி அருகே உள்ள அருங்குணம் கிராம பஞ்சாயத்தில் உள்ள விவசாய நிலத்தின் ஒரு பகுதி ஒரு வாரத்திற்கு முன்பு களைக்கொல்லி தெளிக்கப்பட்ட ட்ரோன்கள் மூலம் அழிக்கப்பட்டதாக எஸ்சி விவசாயிகள் குழு ஒன்று வாதிட்டுள்ளது.

வந்தவாசிக்கு அருகிலுள்ள அருங்குணம் கிராம பஞ்சாயத்தில் உள்ள விவசாய நிலத்தின் ஒரு பகுதி ஒரு வாரத்திற்கு முன்பு களைக்கொல்லியை தெளித்த ட்ரோன்கள் மூலம் அழிக்கப்பட்டதாக எஸ்சி விவசாயிகள் குழு ஒன்று வாதிட்டுள்ளது | புகைப்பட உரிமை: சிறப்பு ஏற்பாடு

பஞ்சமி நிலத்தில் பட்டியலிடப்பட்ட சாதி (SC) விவசாயிகள் பயிரிட்ட பயிர்களை சாதி இந்துக்கள் சமீபத்தில் அழித்ததாக எழுந்த குற்றச்சாட்டுகளை விசாரிக்கும் பணியை செய்யார் துணை ஆட்சியர் பல்லவி வர்மா தலைமையிலான குழுவிடம் ஒப்படைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது .


வந்தவாசி அருகே உள்ள அருங்குணம் கிராம பஞ்சாயத்தில் உள்ள விவசாய நிலத்தின் ஒரு பகுதி ஒரு வாரத்திற்கு முன்பு களைக்கொல்லி தெளிக்கப்பட்ட ட்ரோன்கள் மூலம் அழிக்கப்பட்டதாக எஸ்சி விவசாயிகள் குழு ஒன்று வாதிட்டுள்ளது. குற்றச்சாட்டுகளை விசாரிக்க திருமதி வர்மாவுக்கு அறிவுறுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளதாக திருவண்ணாமலை கலெக்டர் கே. தர்பகராஜ் தி இந்துவிடம் தெரிவித்தார். "இது தொடர்பாக செய்யார் துணை ஆட்சியருக்கு நான் உத்தரவு பிறப்பித்துள்ளேன். அவரது விசாரணை அறிக்கையின் அடிப்படையில், மேலும் நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும்" என்று கலெக்டர் மேலும் கூறினார்.

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கேரளா

தீவிர வறுமை பட்டியலில் உள்ள குடும்பங்களுக்கு வீடுகள் வழங்கும் கேரளா

தீவிர வறுமைப் பட்டியலில் உள்ள பெரும்பாலான மக்கள் பட்டியல் சாதி/பட்டியல் பழங்குடி சமூகங்கள், மீனவர்கள் மற்றும் மட்பாண்டங்கள் மற்றும் கைவினைத் தொழிலாளர்களைச் சேர்ந்தவர்கள்.
பிரதிநிதித்துவ நோக்கங்களுக்காக மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தப்படும் படம்.
பிரதிநிதித்துவ நோக்கங்களுக்காக மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தப்படும் படம்.
புதுப்பிக்கப்பட்டது: 
·1 நிமிடம் படித்ததுதிருவனந்தபுரம்: தீவிர வறுமை பட்டியலில் உள்ள வீடற்ற குடும்பங்களுக்கு வீடுகளை வழங்க மாநில அரசு நடவடிக்கைகளைத் தொடங்கியுள்ளது. பொருளாதார மதிப்பாய்வு 2024 இன் படி, தீவிர வறுமை பட்டியலில் உள்ள மொத்தம் 15,091 பேருக்கு சொந்தமாக வீடு இல்லை. பட்டியலில் உள்ள 58,273 நபர்களுக்கு போதுமான வருமானம் இல்லை, 40,917 பேருக்கு உடல்நலப் பிரச்சினைகள் இருந்தன, 34,523 பேருக்கு போதுமான உணவு கிடைக்கவில்லை.

தீவிர வறுமைப் பட்டியலில் உள்ள பெரும்பாலான மக்கள் பட்டியல் சாதி/பட்டியல் பழங்குடி சமூகங்கள், மீனவர்கள் மற்றும் மட்பாண்டங்கள் மற்றும் கைவினைத் தொழிலாளர்களைச் சேர்ந்தவர்கள்.

தீவிர வறுமை பிரச்சினையை நிவர்த்தி செய்வதில் உள்ளூர் சுய-அரசுகள் முக்கிய பங்கு வகிக்கின்றன என்று அறிக்கை கூறியுள்ளது. அவர்களுக்கான வாழ்வாதார திட்டங்களை உள்ளூர் அரசாங்கங்கள் வகுக்க வேண்டும் என்று அது கூறியுள்ளது.

இதற்கிடையில், வருவாய்த்துறை அமைச்சர் கே. ராஜன், தீவிர வறுமை பட்டியலில் உள்ள குடும்பங்களுக்கு உரிமைப் பத்திரங்களை வழங்கும் செயல்முறையை விரைவுபடுத்துமாறு அதிகாரிகளைக் கேட்டுக் கொண்டார். குடும்பங்களை மேம்படுத்த மாநில அரசு நிர்ணயித்த காலக்கெடு நவம்பர் 2025 ஆகும்.

வருவாய்த் துறையின் கூற்றுப்படி, தீவிர வறுமை பட்டியலில் உள்ள 5,000 குடும்பங்கள் நிலமற்றவர்கள். அவர்களுக்கு மார்ச் மாதத்திற்குள் உரிமைப் பத்திரங்கள் வழங்கப்படும்.

தகுதியுள்ள அனைத்து குடும்பங்களுக்கும் உரிமைப் பத்திரங்களை வழங்குவதற்காக இந்தத் துறை ஒரு பெரிய திட்டத்தை மேற்கொண்டுள்ளது. இந்த அரசாங்கத்தின் ஆட்சிக் காலத்தில் ஐந்து லட்சம் உரிமைப் பத்திரங்கள் வழங்கப்படும். இதுவரை, அரசாங்கம் 1.80 லட்சம் உரிமைப் பத்திரங்களை வழங்கியுள்ளது.


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Kerala to provide homes to families in extreme poverty list

Most of the people in the extreme poverty list are from the scheduled caste/scheduled tribe communities, fisherfolk, and workers in the pottery and handicraft.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government has initiated steps to provide homes to homeless families in the extreme poverty list. As per the Economic Review 2024, a total of 15,091 people in the extreme poverty list do not own a house. As many as 58,273 individuals in the list do not have sufficient income, 40,917 had health issues, and 34,523 people do not get sufficient food.

Most of the people in the extreme poverty list are from the scheduled caste/scheduled tribe communities, fisherfolk, and workers in the pottery and handicraft.

The report said local self-governments had an important role in addressing the issue of extreme poverty. The LSGs should devise livelihood programmes for them, it said.

Meanwhile, Revenue Minister K Rajan asked officers to expedite the process of giving title deeds to families in the extreme poverty list. The deadline set by the state government to uplift the families is November 2025.

According to the revenue department, 5,000 families in the extreme poverty list are landless. They will be given title deeds within March.

The department has undertaken a massive programme to provide title deeds to all deserving families. As many as five lakh title deeds will be given during the tenure of this government. So far, the government has provided 1.80 lakh title deeds.


കേരളം

ദാരിദ്ര്യ പട്ടികയിലുള്ള കുടുംബങ്ങൾക്ക് വീട് നിർമ്മിച്ച് നൽകാൻ കേരളം.

കടുത്ത ദാരിദ്ര്യ പട്ടികയിലുള്ളവരിൽ ഭൂരിഭാഗവും പട്ടികജാതി/വർഗ വിഭാഗങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നുള്ളവരും, മത്സ്യത്തൊഴിലാളികളും, മൺപാത്ര നിർമ്മാണ, കരകൗശല തൊഴിലാളികളുമാണ്.
പ്രതിനിധാന ആവശ്യങ്ങൾക്ക് മാത്രമായി ഉപയോഗിച്ച ചിത്രം.
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Telangana caste census reveals high Muslim OBC proportion, fuels hopes for increase in reservation

February 18, 2025
Telangana Minister N Uttar Kumar Reddy receives the Caste Survey-2025 report.

By Our Correspondent

NEW DELHI – The Congress government in Telangana has carried out the much-awaited caste census in a record time, as promised by it earlier, and announced its major findings in the State Assembly in the first week of February. The caste census report has revealed that Muslims make up 12.56% of Telangana’s population, of which 10.08% belong to the Other Backward Class (OBC) category.

The finding has generated a strong expectation in the Muslim community for an increase in the existing 4% reservation provided in the state, as only 2.48% of the Muslim population falls outside the OBC classification. The caste census data has provided concrete evidence of Muslims’ backwardness and reinforced their eligibility for reservation benefits.

The outcome of the caste census has challenged previous speculations regarding the number of Muslim OBCs and highlighted the socio-economic conditions that align a significant section of the community with the OBC category. The broader findings of the survey show that non-Muslim OBCs constitute 46.25%, Scheduled Castes (SCs) 17.43%, and Scheduled Tribes (STs) 10.45%.

Non-Muslim general castes (Other Castes) account for 13.31%, while Muslims make up 12.56%. These statistics are enough to refute the argument often put forward by the Bharatiya Janata Party and its affiliates that Muslims are solely a religious group. The caste census has in fact reinforced the classification of Muslims as a caste-based entity, making them eligible for reservation benefits at par with other OBC communities.

A key concern emerging from the caste census is the legal battle in the Supreme Court regarding reservations for Muslims who converted from SC and ST backgrounds. Currently, these individuals are denied the SC/ST benefits that their Hindu counterparts enjoy. Both the Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee and the Ranganath Misra Commission had recommended extending SC/ST reservations to Muslims, arguing that conversion has not changed their socio-economic status.

Making a statement in the State Assembly, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said that official information regarding the weaker sections was not available in the country to date, which made it difficult to implement reservations for Backward Classes (BC). After 1931, enumeration of the weaker sections was not conducted in India. The details of the weaker sections were not included in the national census report, he said.

Reading out key findings of the survey conducted covering 3,54,75,554 people, the Chief Minister said that Backward Classes, including Muslims, constituted 56.33% in the state. There were 35,76,588 Muslims in Backward Classes (BC) category which constitutes to 10.08%. Number of people, other than Muslims, belonging to Backward Classes (BC) were 1,64,09,179 (46.25%); people belonging to Scheduled Castes were 61,84,319 (17.43%); 37,05,929 people belonged to Scheduled Tribes (10.45%) and 56,01,539 people, including Muslims, belonged to Other Castes (OC) which constitutes to 15.79%.

The survey was launched on November 6, 2024, to assess the socio, caste, economic, education and political status of people in households across Telangana. As many as 1.03 lakh enumerators visited door-to-door with forms containing 57 questions (75 fields including sub-questions) to collect details. A total of 1,12,15,134 families were covered in 50 days, including 66,99,602 families in rural areas. The coverage was 96.9%.

The total Muslim population in the state was 44.57 lakh, or 12.5%. Reddy declared that the state government had resolved to provide a 42% quota for BCs in the local body polls, irrespective of whether the central government permitted it or not. He also indicated that the government may increase reservations in employment and education for the backward classes in line with the numbers identified in the census.

Prominent leaders like Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and Uttam Kumar Reddy said the Telangana government would use the survey data as the basis for effective formulation of policy to promote the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as well as the backward classes.

This, they said, would be a milestone in data-based governance for the upliftment of the people.

Pressure is already building up from BC leaders who have called for 42% reservation for the community in the local body elections. Predictably, the findings have met with objections from the BJP and the Bharat Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS).

BRS leader K.T. Rama Rao made an accusation of misreported data and called on the government to re-conduct the survey. He said the government had underreported the BC population by about 22 lakh or 5.5%, compared to the numbers found in the Samagra Kutumba (integrated household) survey of 2014 conducted by the then BRS government.

The BJP has sought to find fault with the inclusion of Muslim backward classes within the overall figures. The BJP leaders alleged that this was a Congress ploy to suppress the BCs. Adding Muslims to the BC numbers would hurt the chances of Hindu candidates in BC-reserved constituencies, said Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar, citing the results of elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Council.

The criticism of under-reporting BC data has also come from backward-class leaders themselves, as they have accused the government of misrepresenting the data to serve their own interests. By carrying out a comprehensive caste census and making public its findings, the Telangana government has wrongfooted its adversaries and set the stage for intensifying Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s repeated calls for a national caste census, which the BJP is unwilling to do.

A renewed focus on caste identity and status is not going to suit the BJP’s outreach to Hindus as a whole, and could even jeopardize its electoral inroads into the community. Also, with the current reservation for Muslims in Telangana being only 4%, the survey suggests that they deserve more, which the BJP has been strongly opposing.

Though Telangana is not the first state to order a caste survey, as Bihar and Karnataka preceded it, it is among the first to come out with the results. Other states are now clamouring for a caste survey. The latest caste survey has significant implications for both national and state politics. Rahul Gandhi, who is on record saying that BCs/SCs / STs are locked out of the present governance structures in the country, wants to break the hold of the BJP on the BCs by pushing a much more radical pro-OBC agenda.

The Telangana caste survey has significant political ramifications, as the BJP, relying so far on the OBC votes, now faces the challenge of reconciling its Hindutva ideology with the rising demands for caste-based reservations. The party’s reluctance to conduct caste censuses in BJP-ruled states indicates its strategic hesitation in addressing the OBC concerns.

In the months to come, the Opposition parties may challenge the BJP’s Hindutva narrative and mobilize OBC voters with the slogan of socio-economic justice. The survey also exposes the contradiction in BJP’s politics, because on the one hand, it advocates for a unified Hindu identity, and on the other, resists caste-based reservations which benefit a significant portion of the Hindu electorate.

The inclusion of a greater number of Muslims in the OBC list represents a crucial step towards their social and economic upliftment. The caste census data from Bihar and Telangana has provided concrete evidence of their backwardness, reinforcing their eligibility for reservation benefits. The Telangana caste census may serve as a model for other states and increase pressure on the BJP government at the Centre to conduct a nationwide caste census, which will make reservations more inclusive and data-driven.


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