BHUBANESWAR: Non-implementation of reservation policy in promotion has been a cause for agitation among Dalits in the country, chairman of National Commission For Scheduled Castes (NCSC) PL Punia said here on Friday.
“It is a fact that Dalits in government jobs and elsewhere have not been given reservation in promotion despite having adequate provision,” NCSC chairman P L Punia said here. Punia told this at a gathering of Dalits who in large numbers turned up at his meeting.
Many of them submitted memoranda with the Commission and demanded immediate steps to redress their grievances.
Most of the allegations were on non-implementation of reservation on promotion, atrocities on Dalits, compensation for rape victims and for the families of persons killed in caste conflicts.
Punia said the commission had set up at least 16 committees to address problems of Dalits and asserted that he was in constant touch with authorities on different issues.
He also expressed concern over negligible conviction rate in atrocities cases in the state.
As many as 11,000 atrocities cases were pending till 2011 in the state while 6,000 cases waited disposal in courts.
The police is yet to take up probe in other 5,000 cases, one of the memorandum submitted by a Dalit organisation claimed.
The community also alleged that they were deprived of reservation facilities in technical educations and private institutions.
Punia assured the Dalit representatives that the Commission had recommended opening of eight new full-fledged offices including one in the state.
Addressing a media conference here, Punia said the conviction rate in the atrocities against scheduled caste cases was very low in Orissa.
He said that 1255 atrocity cases were filed in 2009, but 6,810 cases were pending from previous years, he said.