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Fwd: [untouchabilityeradicationfront] SC panel sets Nov 30 deadline for receiving data on Dalits in UP

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Subject: [untouchabilityeradicationfront] SC panel sets Nov 30 deadline for receiving data on Dalits in UP
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THE National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) on Sunday set November 30 as the deadline for receiving data on Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, after which he would officially convene a meeting with the officials concerned and take action as per the constitutional norms.
NCSC chairman Panna Lal Punia rejected the Uttar Pradesh Government's claims of bringing down incidents of violence against Dalits, terming them as `baseless and misleading'.

Punia, who served as the top bureaucrat under BSP supremo and Chief Minister Mayawati during her earlier regimes and is now a Congress MP from Barabanki adjoining the state capital, said the data obtained by him regarding Dalits is from the National Crime Records Bureau and supplied by the state government itself, `so the notion of not believing the data is ridiculous'.

He said actually the data released by the state government in response to the queries by the NCSC comprise only the first six months of

2010, while the commission had asked for a detailed report. "The atrocities against the Dalits actually registered a steep rise over the three-anda-half year rule of the BSP," he said.
Punia further accused the state government of diverting SCP (Special Component Plan) funds meant for Dalit welfare programmes.

"Construction of four medical colleges at Saharanpur, Azamg arh, Kannauj and Jalaun is being carried out with the diverted money," he said and added that the Medical Council of India has refused to grant approval to all the four medical colleges as the MCI found it unacceptable that 70 percent of seats in these colleges could be reserved for SC students.

Claiming that the commission was doing its duty and not acting politically, as alleged by the BSP Government, Punia said,"The objective of the NCSC covered all such states where there was evidence of fudging of figures and UP is no exception in this regard.

There are many other states, ruled by other party governments, including the Congress."
source:The New Indian Express dt 22.11.10