The pitiable state of Dalits in India : Facts and Figures

In the so called largest democracy in the world, bastation of
democracy and enlightenment, the country of Gandhi and Nehru :

Every 18 minutes:
A crime is committed against a Dalit

Every day:

3 Dalit women are raped
2 Dalits are murdered & 2 Dalits Houses are burnt in India
11 Dalits are beaten
Every week:

13 Dalits are murdered
5 Dalits home or possessions are burnt
6 Dalits are kidnapped or abducted
Social and Economic condition of Dalits:

37 percent of Dalits living below poverty in India
More than half (54%) of their children are undernourished in India
83 per 1000 live birth children born in Dalit community are
probability of dying before the first birthday


45 percent of Dalits do not know read and write in India
Dalits women burden double discrimination (gender and caste) in India
Only 27 percent of Dalits women give institutional deliveries in
India
About one third of Dalit households do not have basic facilities
Public health workers refused to visit Dalit homes in 33% of villages
Dalits were prevented from entering police station in 27.6% of
villages
Dalit children had to sit separately while eating in 37.8% of Govt.
schools
Dalits didn’t get mail delivered to their homes in 23.5% of villages
Dalits were denied access to water sources in 48.4% of villages
because of segregation & untouchabilty practices
Half of India’s Dalit children are undernourished, 21% are severely
underweight & 12% DIE before their 5th birthday
Literacy rates for Dalit women are as low as 37.8% In Rural India
Status of Prevention of Atrocities Act:

The conviction rate under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act is 15.71%
and pendency is as high as 85.37%. This when the Act has strict
provisions aimed as a deterrent. By contrast, conviction rate under
IPC is over 40%


On actual crime committed against Dalits
“Even the reports prepared by the Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment and placed before Parliament contain merely factual
information received from States about registration and disposal of
cases; various administrative arrangements made for the function of
the Act and funds spent, without any meaningful analysis of the
performance of the States which could form the basis for making
corrective interventions.” “Under-reporting of Atrocities Act cases is
a very common phenomenon and therefore the decline in the number of
registered cases does not provide a true picture of the incidence of
atrocities.”


“A large number of cases which deserve to be registered under
Protection of Civil Rights Act or the SCs & STs (Prevention of
Atrocities) Act are not actually registered under these Acts, either
due to ignorance of law or under pressure from the interested parties.
Investigations in even those limited number of cases is often earned
out in a slipshod manner and with considerable delay.”


Source: National Human Rights Commission Report on the Prevention and
Atrocities against Scheduled Castes


http://www.nhrc. nic.in/Publicati ons/reportKBSaxe na.pdf


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