“It is another world,” says P. Gangadhar Rao, gesturing towards the roughly 50 huts perched on a hill in Chitti Nagar of the Vijayawada West constituency in Andhra Pradesh. We also want a community hall and a school for our children near our settlement so that our children can find better jobs,” Sankar says, reasonably. Subba Rao explains, “Though there …
The National Human Rights Commission on Friday stressed on the need to implement the Idate Commission report that has recommended for setting up a permanent commission for Nomadic, Semi Nomadic, and De-Notified Tribes in India. Dr. Mulay said that De-Notified Tribes, Nomadic Tribes, and Semi-Nomadic Tribes also require proper means of livelihood and added that the colonial mindset about the …
WARANGAL: Members of the Telangana State Poosala Sangham have urged Chief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao to include people of the Poosala community in the Denotified Nomadic Tribes and in the Most Backward Classes so that their children can get education and employment opportunities. After conducting a study on the Poosala community, whose socio-economic, political and educational conditions need to be improved, …
Supreme Court judge Justice S. Ravindra Bhat on Wednesday said creating a separate Schedule in the Constitution for denotified, nomadic, and semi-nomadic tribes and the extension of the Prevention of Atrocities against SC/ST Act to them “requires urgent consideration and appropriate action”. Justice Bhat added that the government should show an “essence of urgency” to finish the ethnographic survey of …
In this two part series interview with Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project we are in conversation with Nikita Sonavane, Ameya Bokil and Srujana Bej, lawyers and team members at the CPA project. In the first part we discussed the need of documenting and intervening against the disproportionate harm caused by the criminal justice system against marginalized castes. In this …
