Question

What supportive measures are taken to accelerate the integration of SC/ST

with mainstream society?
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Answer 1

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Answer 2

Being dissatisfied with the social status of the SCs, Ambedkar launched a drive in 1956 for their mass conversion to Buddhism. In 1957, he organ­ised the political wing of the SCs, known as Republican Party. There have been many instances of conversion of the SCs to Christianity too. Since after the conversion, the SCs ceased to be entitled for benefits of­fered by the government, the Republican Party launched an agitation in 1964 for the restoration of these privileges to neo-Buddhist SCs.

Gandhiji had taken up the cause of Harijan welfare in 1924. The uplift of the Harijans was an important item in the Bardoli programme of constructive work drawn up in 1922. The Harijan Sevak Sangh was organised in 1932 to work for the removal of the social disabilities of the Harijans.

After independence, the Constitution of India prescribed protection and safeguards for the SCs (and STs).

The important measures taken are:

(i) Abolition of untouchability,

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(ii) Protection from social injustice and various forms of exploitation,

(iii) Throwing open to them religious insti­tutions of public character,

(iv) Removal of restrictions on their access to wells, tanks, shops, restaurants and roads, etc.

(v) Giving them the right to move freely and acquire property

(vi) Giving them the right of admission to educational institutions and receiving grants out of state funds,

(vii) Permitting the state governments to make reservation for them in serv­ices,

(viii) Giving them special representation in the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabhas,

(ix) Setting up separate departments and advisory councils to promote their welfare and safeguard their interest

(x) Prohibiting forced labour, and

(xi) Making special provision for the administration and control of the scheduled areas.

The Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atroci­ties) Act, 1989 has described the following acts as punishable crimes:

(1) Forcing an SC/ST person to eat or drink some disgusting substance.

(2) Throwing in the house or the neighbourhood of an SC/ST person refuse, rubbish or dead animal, etc. which may humiliate, harm or anger him.

(3) Taking away clothes forcibly from the body of an SC/ST person and making him naked; or blackening his face and taking him round the pub­lic places.

(4) Forcibly occupying and cultivating the land of an SC/ST person owned by him or allotted to him.

(5) Usurping the land/property of any SC/ST person.

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