Madras:
Till recently, communal Hindus who are holding key positions in Govt. used to file a spate of court cases against reservations to Dalits. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of reservations and further aggravated the heart-burning of this heartless section. Having been temporarily frustrated in the court battle, this section through its representatives in the bureaucracy has once again driven the Dalits to courts putting forward all sorts of obstacles.
1. A writ petition was filed against the Reserve Bank super Hindu management challenging the formation of four different committees to select candidates for a single cadre. Admitting the writ, the Madras High Court ordered to serve notice on the RBI management. The writ was filed by the Co-ordination Council of the SC & ST Employees Associations, Central and State Govts., Port & Banks, says its convener, R Elumalai, of Madras.
2. AP High Court Grants Stay:
The Andhra Pradesh SC-ST Employees Co-ordination Council has filed a writ against the order of the director of the NGRI, Hyderabad. The Court stayed the order directing the director to stop appointing non-SCs to the reserved post of documentation officer, states T. Sarangapani, general secretary of the AP Coordination Council. The AP Dalits are facing troubles in reservations at the Survey of India offices, and the office of the general manager, Telecommunications. Many SC/ST students could not get admission to Kamala Nehru Polytechnic, Hyderabad, due to the mass admission of Hindu students. Dalit women employees of the Andhra Bank are deliberately harassed by posting them too far off places. Following effective protest, these women employees have been re-posted back to the city. From Kakinada comes the report of the termination of Adinarayana, a Dalit from the training class by the AE, Telecommunication Training Centre, Kakinada. An effective protest has been lodged.
3. Madras AG’s office Dalits file writ:
K.S. Jagannathan and S. Velayudhan, selection grade auditors who have put in 21 and 18 years of service were deprived of promotion as section officers in a qualifying exam while all other major depts. in the Railways, P & T have prescribed a minimum standard for SC/ST officials. But the communal Hindus in the C & AG office are yet to formulate any such standard.
4. The communal Hindus, who rule India, have thus successfully sabotaged the chances of the Dalits getting justice in government services despite specific provisions in the Constitution. While in public sector undertakings and banks, they are made to fight against the oppressive managements, they are gradually coming to realise that even their own trade unions are not coming to their rescue. So much so, in many places they are made to fight a double battle-one against the management and another against their own unions. The only way out is to convert the SC/ST employees associations into trade unions. Shortly, all over India such a fight will come to the surface.
