Over 47,000 complaints have been obtained by the Nationwide Fee for Scheduled Caste within the final 4 years, in accordance with official knowledge, with atrocities in opposition to Dalits, and disputes associated to land and governments jobs being the primary points.
As per info shared by the NCSC in response to an RTI filed by PTI, 11,917 complaints have been obtained in 2020-21, 13,964 complaints registered in 2021-22, 12,402 in 2022-23 and 9,550 complaints thus far in 2024.
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Chatting with PTI in regards to the knowledge, NCSC chairperson Kishor Makwana mentioned the commonest complaints obtained by the fee are associated to atrocities in opposition to the Scheduled Castes neighborhood, adopted by land disputes and points associated to companies within the authorities sector.
“In a bid to deal with the complaints speedily, from subsequent month, me or my members could be visiting the state places of work and looking out into the problems confronted by the folks there,” he mentioned.
Mr. Makwana added that he’s holding hearings 4 instances per week to satisfy folks and take heed to their issues.
“Since I’ve taken cost, I’ve ensured that my workplace stays open to satisfy folks,” he mentioned.
A senior NCSC official mentioned the best variety of complaints have been filed from Uttar Pradesh amongst all states. The fee receives 200-300 complaints on daily basis and plenty of of them get resolved inside days, so the info seen right here is generally of the complaints which might be within the means of getting their decision, the official mentioned.
“There’s not a single criticism that has been left unattended. All of them are into consideration,” he mentioned.
In accordance with the info from the nationwide helpline on atrocities in opposition to folks from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, 6,02,177 calls have been obtained. Out of those, the full variety of grievances stood at 5,843, of which 1,784 have been resolved.
Greater than half of calls have been obtained from Uttar Pradesh at 3,10,623. This helpline is monitored by the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry.
In accordance with the newest authorities report below the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the vast majority of atrocities in opposition to Scheduled Caste have been concentrated in 13 states, which reported 97.7% of all instances in 2022.
Of 51,656 instances registered below the regulation in 2022, Uttar Pradesh accounted for 23.78% of the full instances with 12,287, adopted by Rajasthan at 8,651 (16.75%) and Madhya Pradesh at 7,732 (14.97%).
Different states with a major variety of instances of caste atrocities have been Bihar with 6,799 (13.16%), Odisha with 3,576 (6.93%), and Maharashtra with 2,706 (5.24%). These six states accounted for almost 81% of the full instances.
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