Dalits stage protest in Chandigarh
Chandigarh, (PTI): Scheduled-castes from across the State on Thursday staged a demonstration here protesting against the alleged failure of the government in preventing bonded labour and implementation of SCs atrocities act.
The dalits owing allegiance to a Punjab-based NGO, Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan, staged a protest march in the city and later submitted a memorandum to Punjab Governor Gen (Retd), S F Rodrigues.
The NGO claimed there were around five lakh bonded labours in the agrarian sector. "Lot many atrocities are committed upon us," said Jai Singh, head of the NGO.
He criticised the government's failure in filling up of backlog vacancies for SCs in public sectors.
"Since long, we are working to get released various bonded labours from different places of Punjab. So far the number of such labours stood at around 9,000," said Swami Agnivesh, a social worker.
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