RACIAL JUSTICE - INDIAN RURAL DALIT COMMUNITY

Title of the Project: RACIAL JUSTICE IN CONCEINTIZATION, ADVOCACY, LOBBYING AND SUPPORT TO DALIT COMMUNITY ‘Dalit’ literally means oppressed and crushed. It is a nomenclature that is used to describe the 20% of India’s population or almost 200 million people referred to as the scheduled castes. This is classified outside the caste hierarch. The percentage of Dalit population in our District of India according to 2010 census is 22.19% which is more than the state average. Their participation in terms of labour and their contribution to culture are enormous and significantly larger than their share in the population.

OUTPUTS AND RELEVANCE OF THE PROJECT:

1. Dalit Community could able to face any challenges put before them in social economical are political influence.
2. The Dalit women group and youth groups formulated all strengthened through this project could solve in even village level for the Human rights problems like vulnerable incidents of rape, manhandling, arson, murder and police unwanted  and illegal actions against Dalit people could be questioned and necessary steps could be taken up through this project.
3. The Dalit victims could be supported effectively and the community could become aware in opposing such incidents.
4. The leaders from Dalit community will be raised out and lead the community for a better social change equalling to high caste people.

60% of the dalits in Tiruvannamalai District landless agricultural labourers and the rest are marginal farmers who mainly own dry lands.  The main source of income is through their daily wages.  The Dalits form the single largest group of agricultural labourers in the country the landless agricultural labourers.  Dalit women form the majority of the landless labour force.  This happens to be poorest and the most vulnerable section of Indian society.  This segment of society has taken the worst beating in the last 10-11 years of economic change, in the last 10 years due to mechanisation of the agricultural sectors.  Cultivation of cash crops that require less agricultural workers and the failure of monsoon.  Fifty-four years after independence a vast mass of this group still lives in segregated clusters and in the periphery of villages.  Social problems such as family disintegration high rate of school dropouts of dalit children insecurity and frustrations among the dalits are on the increase.   

1. Dalit Community could able to face any challenges put before them in social economical are political influence.
2. The Dalit women group and youth groups formulated all strengthened through this project could solve in even village level for the Human rights problems like vulnerable incidents of rape, manhandling, arson, murder and police unwanted  and illegal actions against Dalit people could be questioned and necessary steps could be taken up through this project.
3. The Dalit victims could be supported effectively and the community could become aware in opposing such incidents.
4. The leaders from Dalit community will be raised out and lead the community for a better social change equalling to high caste people.