Friday, July 6, 2007

Dalit issues

What?
The Rajasthan state Govt. is planning to bring a bill in assembly to amend the provision of 42-B of Rajasthan tenancy Act. 1955. Which barred the people of other than SC/ST community to purchase the land of SC/ST communities.

Why?
For your consideration, during the last 8 months some unknown people of other than SC/ST communities have purchased thousands of hectares of land of SC/ST communities in almost all the districts of Rajasthan.

The cities of Rajasthan are getting populated every day due to the every day findings of petroleum and mineral products and ever increasing tourism industry. Alike the findings of minerals, new construction houses are also coming to the state to en cash the everyday increasing demand of houses for newly rich of the area. The share of SC/ST communities in the land around the small and big cities is about 30%. In the presence of bar 42 B this land can not be purchased by any person other then SC/ST community. The builders are lobbying in side the Govt. to bring amendment in the bar 42 b so that these builders could purchase this land to earn millions of bucks.

The effect
If the bar 42 b is eliminated, the builders then freely can purchase the land of SC/ST communities, not only this the upper caste people, because of whom this act came in the existence are ready with the money to purchase their agricultural and residential lands.
There are thousands of cases are pending the different courts under this bar, if it is eliminated, the SC/ST community would loose millions of hectares of lands.

Due to this bar the land of SC/ST community is speared from sell. This is well known that this community owns very small portion of land only and this is the basis of livelihood for them.
People of these communities are very poor and suffer with stark conditions in their daily life. They always remain in the need of money due to persisting diseases and debt.
This is to sensitize the community on the issue so that all the people show there objections and pressurize the Govt. for not take this step.

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