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Reservation demanded for Dalits in Pondicherry
Pondicherry, June 24: The Pondicherry state `Bhim Sena` has appealed to the National Commission for SC and ST to ensure that Dalit farm workers in the union territory, who became jobless following industrialistation, be given jobs.
Pondicherry, June 24: The Pondicherry state 'Bhim Sena' has appealed to the National Commission for SC and ST to ensure that Dalit farm workers in the union territory, who became jobless following industrialistation, be given jobs.
In a memorandum submitted to chairman of the National Commission for SC and ST, Bijai Sankar Sastri, during the commission's camp here yesterday, Bhim Sena president S Krishnan, also requested the commission to ensure the special component plan (16 per cent of the total budgetary allocations for SC welfare programmes) was fully utilised by Pondicherry administration.
Federation of Scheduled Tribes People of Pondicherry and Dalit Sena also presented memoranda to the commission consisting of various demands.
Bureau Report