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'Dalits
still being targetted in Uttar Pradesh'
Sunday November 21, 2010 10:03:17 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow:
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes Sunday rejected the
Uttar Pradesh government's claims of bringing down incidents of
violence against Dalits, terming them "baseless and misleading".
The commission's newly-appointed chairman P.L. Punia said the
state government released figures of only the first six months of
this year, and atrocities against Dalits had actually registered a
steep rise over the three-and-a-half year rule of Bahujan Samaj
Party, according to statistics by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Punia further accused the government of diverting funds meant for
Dalit welfare programmes.
"Construction of four medical colleges at Saharanpur, Azamgarh,
Kannauj and Jalaun was being carried out with the diverted money",
he said.
Punia said the government's move of reserving 70 percent of seats
in these colleges has been disallowed by the Medical Council of
India.
He also gave the state government a deadline to furnish correct
details on welfare schemes.
"November 30 is the deadline I have fixed for these details, after
which I will convene a hearing with the concerned officials," he
said.
Punia, a bureaucrat turned Congress MP from Barabanki, was once
part of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's inner circle.
He served as the principal secretary to the chief minister twice,
but later fell out with her. He switched loyalties to her arch
rival Mulayam Singh Yadav, before joining the Congress.
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