How to convince a person beleiving in untouchability? Give 4 points
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e are all aware that caste discrimination is one of the oldest and continuing social hierarchy of dividing a society in four castes specifically Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra.
To break the barriers of caste discrimination, Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam has decided to train Dalits (who were once known as untouchables) as priests. According to the reports, around 200 Dalits will be given a training for about three months on daily Vedic rituals and practices. In another village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a school has been set up by a group of teenage children because the village kids who were from a socially barred group were denied access to the only primary school, in the adjoining village.
65 years after the caste system was abolished by the constitution, India still practices one of the cruelest feature of the it, untouchability. It is only now that few organisations have started breaking the social hierarchy.
The data collected by the India Human Development Survey conducted by the National Council of Applied Economic Research says the same. Take a look!
About 27 percent of the Indian households still practice untouchability
Since, Brahmins come on the top of the caste chart, 52 percent of them still practice untouchability
Only 5.34 percent of Indian marriages are inter-caste
About 15 percent of Scheduled Caste and 22 percent of Scheduled Tribe respondents admitted to the practice
It is most widespread in Madhya Pradesh with 53 percent practicing untouchability. Madhya Pradesh is followed by Himachal Pradesh with 50 per cent. Chhattisgarh comes on the 3rd position with 48 percent, Rajasthan and Bihar with 47 percent, Uttar Pradesh with 43 percent, and Uttarakhand with 40 percent
The survey also shows that almost every third Hindu practises untouchability (33-35%)
More than 160 million people in India are considered 'Untouchable'
Statistics compiled by India's National Crime Records Bureau indicate that in the year 2000, about 25,455 crimes were committed against Dalits
Every hour two Dalits are assaulted; every day two Dalits are murdered, and two Dalit homes