{"id":2994,"date":"2017-02-15T04:36:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehadixit.in\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2023-09-08T09:12:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T09:12:36","slug":"bundelkhands-dalit-women-rally-against-government-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehadixit.in\/bundelkhands-dalit-women-rally-against-government-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bundelkhand\u2019s Dalit Women Rally Against Government Negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhen someone comes to our house, we offer food. Not like cities where people sit on a one lakh\u00a0rupee sofa but do not even offer chai,\u201d Sanwari Amma laughs. When the Dalit Mahila Samiti was formed in 1992, the litmus test for hunting and accepting allies was to see whether they accepted the food and water offered by the women or not. \u201cIf they did, it meant that they do not believe in untouchability. So you better eat,\u201d Shanti says.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s monthly meetings are held at Sanwari Amma\u2019s house since it is on the road and the bus from Chitrakoot district stops right in front of her house, which is in Kaimaha village in Manikpur block. The bus was delayed that day\u00a0since the only other bus that comes to the \u2018beehad<\/em>\u2019 met with an accident. It was lunch time so Sanwari amma quickly made some pearl millet rotis and mustard greens for the members. Twenty of them had already arrived and a few more were awaited. They decided to eat first and then start the meeting.<\/p>\n

Manikpur block is one of the five blocks of Chitrakoot district which were carved out in 1997 from the adjoining Banda district. In 2006, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj declared it one of the most backward districts in India. It receives funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme and has a low sex ratio of 879 females per 1000 males. The Dalit population in the district is 27% of the total. Manikpur block, which is located on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, \u00a0is remote and comprises 123 villages. The female literacy rate is roughly 30%.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad we not organised ourselves, they would have sold and eaten us up,\u201d says Urmila. Most members of the Samiti are Dalit agricultural labourers. Vanagana, an NGO in the area, helped them set up the group but it has been three years since they independently registered themselves. \u00a0Once a month they hold a meeting where fellow members report from their geographical zones.<\/p>\n

\u201cElections are around the corner and that is why more people are visiting the area. Else, who wants to listen to us,\u201d Ram Kumari says with a smirk as everyone settles down on the\u00a0durri<\/em>\u00a0in the front room of Sanwari Amma\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s wait for some more members. They are at the\u00a0kotedar<\/em>\u2019s place to collect ration,\u201d says Dhaniya.<\/p>\n

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Sukhmani replies, \u201cThe government keeps making schemes online. They think they have done their bit of development. Who cares whether we get ration or not.\u201d<\/div>\n
Seema explains, \u201cLast year, since the UP government decided to draw a fresh list of beneficiaries of the PDS system through online registration, most people have stopped getting ration.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Under the National Food Security Act, the state earlier gave ration to three categories, Below Poverty Line (BPL), Above Poverty Line (APL) and Antyoday. The new system has merged the APL and BPL categories into a single \u2018priority card holder category\u2019 under which each person is entitled to 5kg of grain as monthly ration \u2013 3.5 kg of wheat at Rs 2 per kg and 1.5 kg of rice at Rs 3 kg. In the earlier system, each family could avail 35 kg of ration. Now only the Antyoday category is entitled to that.<\/p>\n

Ram Dulari says, \u201cBut we don\u2019t even have the Antyoday cards. Only the Brahmins and Patels have it. Go and check. They have big houses and tractors and get ration on the Antyoday cards. In the last five years, I have paid the boy at Graduate\u00a0ki dukaan<\/em>\u00a0Rs 500 till now. But the card hasn\u2019t come. Checked with him today too.\u201d Graduate ki dukaan is the name of the shop of the local computer operator.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, for online registration you need so many things, Aadhaar card, voter card, bank account and what not. How do we get all the made?\u201d Santoshi asks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mansha sitting in the extreme left corner informs, \u201cAlso surveys for basic schemes like ration card and Lohia Awaas are done in a way that Dalits are excluded. Rich and upper caste people have got ration cards in their family members name.\u201d Lohia Awaas Yojana is one of the flagship programmes of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government, which was launched to provide hosing for the urban and rural poor.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that is what the government wants. To help the rich to show development. Not uplift the poor. When the\u00a0zila poorti adhikari<\/em> (district supply officer) came to launch the online registration of the PDS cards, he filled the first form of an upper caste lawyer. Now can\u2019t he see that he has three cars and does not need one,\u201d Munniya replies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Do any of the villages have Dalits\u00a0pradhans<\/em>? How do the other pradhans behave? I ask.<\/p>\n

All the women seem to rush forward with answers like commandos, each attacker acting with the same objective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cSometimes, even Dalit pradhans are not allowed to assist Dalits in accessing ration cards because they ate threatened,\u201d Putli answers.<\/div>\n
Pushpa, a 40-year-old woman joins in. \u201cI told the pradhan the other day. He said that all we do is complain instead of working in their fields. They want us to be their slaves for life. Stay dependent on landowning castes instead of getting help from the state.\u201d<\/div>\n
I ask if there is any mechanism to complain.<\/div>\n
\u201cLook. In the previous government, all officers were instructed to sit in their offices no matter what. Now, take a quick round and you will find locks in all government offices during office hours. The zila poorti adhikaris are responsible for ration cards, PDS and basic things but they are never present in their offices.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cIf Akhilesh comes I will pull out his eyes. Understand?\u201d says Suhagi Amma, a 70-year-old participant. She is referring to UP chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav.<\/p>\n

\u201cArey, Suhagi Amma, start slowly. Don\u2019t get aggressive,\u201d says Seema with a smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not aggressive? Am I saying something wrong? Kill me if I am lying,\u201d she turns around to speak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cYou go to hospital for delivery. You are asked to get syringe, soap, towels, medicines and money. If you don\u2019t tip the hospital staff in advance they refuse to deliver the baby and send you back. You have to pay Rs 200 to each of the staff members. After delivery, they keep all the stuff \u2013 bedsheets, towels \u2013 and turn you away. What is the choice but to quietly give money? What if they do something to the mother or the child?\u201d<\/div>\n
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Under the maternal health scheme, Janani Suraksha Yojana, all women are entitled to free healthcare and treatment.<\/p>\n

Sona adds, \u201cThree women died in the government hospital last week during delivery. Just in one week, mind you. No one took any action against the doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Purwa explains, \u201cTill five years ago, we would send the children to the hospital by themselves to get basic medicine and treatment because the doctors would come to the hospitals. Now, we have to wait for weeks outside the primary health centre to catch hold of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

How about the government schools for children in the area, I ask. Do they function?<\/div>\n
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The meeting\u00a0has turned the women into information machines. They have numbers and dates on their fingertips.<\/p>\n

Shankari says, \u201cFirst of all, I want to say that all children should go to government schools. It is only then they will function. Right now only poor and Dalit children go to government school in Bundelkhand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pushpa explains with an example, \u201cIn 2015, a Dalit teacher was appointed in Murkata village of Manikpur block. He used to travel 50 km everyday from Chitrakoot in a local bus to come to the school. In the one year, he was there, the mid-day meal was restarted and the food was of good quality for the children to eat. He made a genuine effort to get children interested in school and education. \u00a0Would often bring charts, toys, play games. Children finally started studying. This did not go down well with the local Patels and Yadavs. The local dacoit affiliated to the Patel community kidnapped him. \u00a0The ransom demand was for Rs 3 lakhs. The teacher was obviously from a poor family and so they could not pay. Since the police again did nothing, the teachers collected money from their pockets and got him released. It is that day and today.The school never reopened. They don\u2019t want Dalits to get educated. Their hegemony will be over, no?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sanwari Amma says, \u201cHaan bhai. Why can\u2019t the Dalit children become collector and SP? They are also humans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pushpa says, \u201cI want to ask why is a Brahmin teacher never abducted by dacoits? Because upper caste teachers never go to the government schools if they are in remote areas. \u00a0They are spotted once in 15 days and don\u2019t even teach. They do their personal work while children roam around. There is no sense of responsibility. In mid-day meals, if they are asked to get 1kg dal cooked, they only get made half. They don\u2019t have any motivation to teach poor, untouchable children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have other government programmes like MNREGA functioned in the neighbouring villages in the last five years, I ask.<\/p>\n

Kuntibai replies, \u201cThe village pradhans are responsible for running the programme. The workers are never given job cards, neither is an attendance roll maintained. \u00a0Now tell me, who are the people who have worked as daily wagers for centuries? The Dalits and the tribals, since they are landless, they work for months. But the money eventually goes to the accounts of the upper caste relatives and acquaintances of the pradhan in the village. We have no way to prove that we worked for so many days. I challenge collectors to check the names of the payees in the record in Manikpur block. All of them are upper caste.\u201d<\/p>\n

Were the pension schemes introduced by the SP government of any help?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shanti refers to the previous BSP regime to explain the difference, \u201cEarlier, under the Mahamaya pension scheme, the Dalits were given financial assistance. When the new SP government came in 2012, they scrapped it and started the Samajwadi pension scheme. See it is ok that you didn\u2019t want to give pension only to Dalits. But look at the people who are receiving pension under the Samajwadi pension yojana \u2013 the upper caste Hindus and Muslims, the Brahmins and the Yadavs. All of them have land and means of livelihood. What about the poor? You don\u2019t give them a thought or what?\u201d<\/div>\n
The Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya Garib Arthik Madad Yojana\u00a0was started by Mayawati in 2010 to help all the poor people who are not being covered by any welfare or\u00a0security schemes in the state. It provided a subsistence of Rs 300 per month. When Akhilesh Yadav took over as the chief minister in 2012, he launched the Samajwadi Pension Scheme, under which a financial assistance sum of Rs 500 per month will be granted for the socio-economic empowerment of the poor, and this amount will be increased to up to Rs 750 per month on the completion of certain education and health requirements.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe only pension some people receive is the old age pension. Now for six months, the pension did come. And when it did, they announced\u00a0notebandi\u00a0<\/i>(demonetisation). The amount for six months comes to Rs 1800 but since only Rs 2000 notes were available in the bank, we were turned away. Banks are still locked because the money gets over in no time. As if Akhilesh was less that this Modi also jumped as a ghost to torture us,\u201d says Phulwa.<\/p>\n

Everyone laughs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When asked about the source of livelihood for the women in the area, Rupwati, replied,\u201c That is what we are saying. Don\u2019t give us ration card, pension or anything. But at least let us earn. They don\u2019t even let us do that.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSee, in this area, Dalit and tribal women collect wood from the forest. That is their source of livelihood. But in they are raped and molested every day in the forests\u2026 It is easy to subject them to that because the jungles are remote and distant,\u201d Munni explains.<\/div>\n
The women exude positivity, self-worth and dignity through their narratives.<\/div>\n
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Rupwati gets up to point out to various body parts, \u201cTake off the\u00a0pallu<\/em>\u00a0of their saree in any village and you will see for yourself its traces on their neck, chest, body. Yet they do not go to the police and complain because they know that the case will never go beyond the police station. It will never reach the court. What is the point of complaining since they will anyway have to go to the forest again the next day if they have to run their family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the police does not spare us. When we carry wood in the local train to go from one\u00a0tehsil<\/em>\u00a0to the other, the police takes us inside the train toilet to rape us. Even when we have a train ticket,\u201d Shanti complains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Silence becomes a coping mechanism in this scheme of systemic violence. But it would be an error to think that these women are passive victims of violence.<\/div>\n
Suhagi Amma points out the larger socio-economic ramifications, \u201cThis is the reason hunger deaths are increasing in Bundelkhand. Women dread working in the agricultural fields or the forests now. In the last government, at least we could make an attempt to earn a livelihood because there was a fear of the police.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The women meeting at Sanwari Amma\u2019s house. Credit: Neha Dixit<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

So what is the role of the police here, I ask.<\/p>\n

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Ram Kumari says, \u201cLet me explain with an example. Last month, a 16-year -old girl was molested by a 50- year-old man in Bagdari village. She had gone out to defecate and the man followed her. When she protested and screamed, her mother came running to save her. The man turned around and said that the girl was trying to seduce him. He said, \u2018She was the one who came to my fields.\u2019 Now, the upper caste people own most fields. What is her fault? When the mother went to the police, the cop said that the village pradhan gets a salary of Rs 5,000 per month. It is his responsibility to resolve it. After a lot of pressure, the cop registered an NCR and not an FIR. That too because the pradhan spoke in the girl\u2019s favour.\u201d<\/p>\n

An NCR (a non-cognisable report) as defined under the code of criminal procedure (CrPC) is a report for which the police cannot take cognisance or action. \u00a0It is understood that the police are not bound to investigate an \u00a0NCR.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in cases of rape, even after the medical test, [they] only file an NCR,\u201d Pushpa adds.<\/p>\n

But what about the scene of the crime? Some people say the Akhilesh government\u2019s Dial 100 scheme for police is working very well and police reach the spot within minutes of being called, I say.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t even talk about it. On January 9, when a woman was molested in the forests, she screamed and someone called up the 100 number. The police came within a few minutes but they don\u2019t do the investigation. They took her to the local police station. That is where the cops told her to get hold of the accused and only then will they register an FIR. It is not about the police reaching in a few minutes. It is about what they do after they reach,\u201d Ramkumari replies.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the time, they don\u2019t even go to the scene of crime. New cars will get dirty on the mud paths in the interiors, no?\u201d Shanti adds with a smile. And continues,\u00a0\u201cThey take a round of the area on the surrounding metalled road and come back. Now imagine the kind of investigation they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot just that. They even know who the culprits are. They are hand in glove with the local dacoits. I will tell you why. On January 25th, one of our members was threatened by a local goon. The police had to escort her to her house in Sarainya village. They dropped her on the main road and said don\u2019t go through that village. Next day, an old woman was found killed in that village. All her goats were stolen. The police knows which areas the dacoits will be in and deliberately don\u2019t go to that zone,\u201d says Phulwa.<\/p>\n

Munni Bai adds, \u201cThere was a time when, in the summer months, we could just keep our cots outside the house and sleep under the sky at night. We cannot even do that anymore because we fear for our lives. The dacoits are in complete control and there is no stopping them. In the last two months, eight dead bodies have been found in the villages nearby. They kill and loot and the police knows about it. It was just not like that in the previous government.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you go to the police, they say get a written complain even when they know that we are illiterate,\u201d says Savitri. \u201cDon\u2019t even get me started on that,\u201d she says, her face flushing with blood.<\/p>\n

Ramkumari says that assertions by Dalit women in the form of complaints are also seen as acts of contempt, \u201cThe land mafia has been all over the place in the last five years. Five beeghas of my land was usurped by the Thakurs last year. I went to both the Lekhpal and the SDM to complain. No one did anything. Meanwhile, the other day my daughter, who was going to college was slapped by the thakur. He said, \u2018Why are you studying? Work in my fields because that is what you are born to do. College or no college. Now tell me if this was possible five years back?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Most women in the room say in unison, \u2018No. No. No.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were scared of the SC\/ST atrocity Act. Now there is no FIR only. Forget the Act,\u201d says Shanti.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Munia explains, \u201cSee violence against Dalits has historically been very high in Bundelkhand always. Between 1994 and 1995, when there was a rising Dalit assertion in the state and Mayawati was sworn in as the first Dalit woman chief minister of the state, three Dalit pradhans were killed in one month \u2013 Harichand from Bhounri village, Phoolchand from Char and Ramprasad from Nihi by Patel leaders. But it had significantly reduced five years back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rupwati adds, \u201cLet me give you examples. In Bansipur village of Pahadi block, two Dalit brothers were killed because they sat on a chair in 2014.
\nSimilarly, in 2015, two Dalit teachers were kidnapped. In Barah Mafi, a 96-year-old Dalit woman was brutally beaten up when she refused to sell her land to the Patels. Her son was charged with the Goonda Cct and was in jail for an entire year. In 2012, the dacoits from the Patel and Yadav community asked for a ransom from a Dalit family in Udki village. The police dismissed their complaint. On the fifth day, the entire family had to leave the village and go to Satna because they feared for their lives. Similarly, in June 2016, in Dadri Mafi village, when a Patel opened an alcohol shop in a Dalit basti, the Dalits objected. They beat them up and the police did nothing to help them because they give them weekly\u00a0hafta<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suhagi Amma who had been silent for a long time said, \u201cTell me something. Manikpur has a railway police station. Each time some wire or pipe gets stolen, they catch hold of young men from a Dalit basti and jail them. We sometimes don\u2019t even have money to pay their bail. I want to ask that when a member of a Dalit family is accused of stealing, you catch hold of the entire family and take them to the\u00a0thana\u00a0<\/em>(police station). Why don\u2019t you do that with the family of an upper caste molester? The same police does not act when a Dalit woman complains of torture. So tell me now, if the police is casteist or not?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So do the cops register any FIRs at all which are related to crimes against women, I ask?<\/p>\n

Shanti smiles and says, \u201cLet me answer that. Even in cases of dowry and domestic violence, when women are forcibly made to eat poison and end up dying, the police only register an NCR instead of an FIR. That too when the post mortem is conducted. \u00a0Violence against women is not an issue for the cops at all. The only issue is morality. They register FIRs at a lightning fast speed when an upper caste girl elopes with a guy. \u00a0This has been happening for the last five years. Check at any police station.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is the solution to this? I asked my final question.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the SP government, a record number of ministers and MLAs are from the Patel community. Most dacoits in Bundelkhand are also from the same community. The problem is all political parties give tickets to mostly this community from the region because they have money. As if no other community knows how to do politics. We want leadership positions,\u201d says Pushpa, underlining the need for justice for the region\u2019s Dalit women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rupwati says, \u201cAkhilesh\u00a0babua ke raj mein bas log<\/em>\u00a0computer\u00a0wale ban gaye hain bas aur kuch nahin ban paaye<\/em>. (Under Akhilesh government people only became computer owners, nothing else).\u201d<\/p>\n

So is the BJP-led Modi any better?<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t even talk about the\u00a0budhau<\/em>\u00a0(old man). He said open bank accounts and you will get Rs 15 lakh. We did not get even 15 paise even when we missed a day\u2019s labour to get it opened. He is a liar.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the discussion comes to an end, I ask who they will vote for in this assembly election. Suhagi Amma replies, \u201cSince we are Dalits, everyone will dismiss us and as BSP supporters, will not pay attention to what we literally mean. But the truth is that Akhilesh government gave nothing to us but humiliation. Mayawati did not give us pots of money or\u00a0roti<\/em>\u00a0but at least she let us hold our heads high.\u00a0Jo sach hai woh sach hai<\/i>\u00a0(The truth is truth).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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