Bangalore: We had written earlier also about this Bihar brahmin getting all sorts of awards and rewards for making scavengers better scavengers. Since this is what M.K. Gandhi also did, the brahminical social order (BSO) is very happy with Pathak who on one side is getting name and fame, and on the other side tons of money.
New Delhi: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International, has become the first Indian to be awarded the international Saint Francis prize for the environment instituted by the Vatican.
Dr. Pathak, who was blessed by Pope John Paul II shortly after he had received the award on Oct. 24 in Rome, told a press conference here on Oct. 30 that he was chosen for the honour out of 42 nominations from different countries because the Sulabh had succeeded in “relieving about 30,000 scavengers from suffering the humiliation of carrying night soil as a head-load.” The prize consists of a citation and a statue valued at $ 60,000 (Times of India, Oct. 31).
Pathak is supplying electricity to Patna’s most important street on which the State govt. seat is located. Power is manufactured out of the human excreta.
Job reservation: Brahmins and other upper castes have been complaining that because of job reservations to SC/STs the “poor” among them are not getting govt. jobs. Yes. this is a legitimate complaint. To help such “poor brahmins”, why can’t Pathak employ his own jatwala graduate, give him Rs. 2,000 salary a month and employ half-a-dozen of them in each such Sulabh Shouchalaya?
Why should he employ only our people and make them better scavengers and take credit for that?
This is our complaint.
We have no complaint against Pathak getting awards and rewards and making money. He can do the same thing employing his jatwalas and “relieving the suffering” of his own poor jatwalas.
That is our point. Is Pathak listening?
DALIT CHRISTIANS ASSURED
New Delhi : The Govt. will consider extending the job reservation facility applicable to Scheduled Caste Christians. This assurance was given by welfare minister, Sitaram Kesri, to the National Council for Churches in India (NCCI). A delegation of the NCCI led by the minister of state for small industries, P.J. Kurien, called on Kesri here. (Times of India – Nov. 11)
