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Thursday, Nov 25, 2004

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Weaker sections urged to utilise welfare schemes

By Our Staff Correspondent

CHITRADURGA, NOV. 24. The chief executive officer of the zilla panchayat, Narayanaswamy, has said that the oppressed classes could progress only through education, organisation, and struggle. Inaugurating the "Backward classes day" here on Wednesday, he urged the people to make the best use of the programmes and schemes announced by the Government.The Deputy Commissioner, S.R. Umashankar, spoke about how B.R. Ambedkar had suggested the reservation policy in the face of opposition. Many people who were economically backward and the illiterate were still not able to avail themselves of benefits of schemes, he said.

N. Jayanna, convener of the State unit of the Dalit Sangharsha Samithi, said that the reservation facility guaranteed by the Constitution had not been properly implemented. The facility was only being implemented for lower-level government postsand not in the recruitment of higher cadre posts.

Girija Pujari Ningappa, president of the zilla panchayat, presided over the function.

H. Nagaraj, vice-president of the zilla panchayat; Balaraja, former president of the zilla panchayat; K. Papaiah, member of the zilla panchayat; and B.K. Manjunath, chief planning officer, spoke on the occasion.

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