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Teluguvaadu Junior Artist Username: Teluguvaadu Post Number: 318 Registered: 11-2012 Posted From: 117.221.91.63 Rating: N/A |
Why? are they not humans? are they not Hindus? First HINDUISM lo reform teesukuvaste so called BEEF and INTOLERANCE issues undavu. Government and other NGOs can concentrate on productive activities and overall development of India. | ||
Poseidon Junior Artist Username: Poseidon Post Number: 919 Registered: 07-2014 Posted From: 117.200.11.20 Rating: N/A |
AP lo koodaa chalaa chotla Dalits ki separate anganwadis untayi Yaadhum oorE yaavarum kElir | ||
Teluguvaadu Junior Artist Username: Teluguvaadu Post Number: 317 Registered: 11-2012 Posted From: 117.221.91.63 Rating: N/A |
In Gujarat’s Patan district, separate anganwadis for Dalit children A digit separates anganwadis 159 and 160 in Hajipur village of Gujarat’s Patan district but the divisions are far greater. Now that’s complicated math for a three-year-old. So one morning, a few weeks ago, Manavi Chamar walked towards anganwadi No. 160, lost in conversation with her four-year-old neighbour and friend Suhani Patel. But she was stopped at the gates and asked to go to No. 159. “Anganwadi No. 159 is for us Dalits. That day, people in the other anganwadi told my daughter to go to her own. She came home and asked me why she couldn’t go with her friend to No. 160 and I didn’t know what to say,” says her mother Pinki Chamar. Nearly 130 kilometres from Ahmedabad, Hajipur is a village of about 2,000 people. Like in most other villages of Patan, the Patels or Patidars constitute nearly 70 per cent of Hajipur’s population. The 40 Dalit houses in the village are spread over two mohallas. In Hajipur’s two anganwadis, which take in children between six months and six years, untouchability is one of the first life lessons they learn. Anganwadi No. 159 was set up in 1997. Three years later, the Patidars and the Brahmins demanded a separate anganwadi for themselves and moved into the premises of the adjoining primary school. The new anganwadi, No. 160, now shares its space and entrance with the school, the boundary wall of the school separating the two anganwadis. Around 9 am, Varshaben Rawal, a housewife, reaches No. 160, carrying her two-and-a-half year old son Arya. “Children of Brahmins and Patels come to this anganwadi while the other one is for Dalits. Parents like me would never want their children to sit, play and eat with our children,” she says. “My husband is a school teacher and I am a graduate, so I am very particular about these things. After finishing my household chores, I come here and sit with my son to make sure he gets the best of learning and food,” says Varshaben, as she follows her son inside the playroom of the anganwadi. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/cast e-in-the-cradle-separate-anganwadis-for-dalit-children/ |