Politics
Ramdas Athawale proposes to increase caste-based reservations to 75%, promotes inter-caste marriages to end casteism
Ramdas Athawale (Photo by: Suyash Sethiya)
The newly appointed Minister of State for social justice and empowerment in the Modi government, Ramdas Athawale, arrived in Nagpur on Saturday, October 8, for the first time after he became the minister. Athawale, who was greeted with firecrackers, was dressed in a red shirt and a bright yellow Nehru jacket with bling sunglasses.
Addressing his first press conference after being appointed as the minister, during his four-day Vidarbha tour, he expressed his support for a separate Vidarbha and concern over farmer’s suicides in Vidarbha. He said, I hope the Modi government will carve out more states like Telangana.
Talking about reservations, Athawale said that he’d move a proposal to increase the caste-based reservations in the country from 50% to 75%. Interestingly, Athawale, in the same breath, spoke about the need to encourage inter-caste marriages in order to bring an end to casteism in the country.
Stating that a lot of injustice has been meted out to Dalits in our country, he also spoke about the Maratha protest going on in Maharashtra for the past two months.
Athawale was recently panned by the media for changing his opinion on the Maratha protest. While he initially said that the protest instilled fear amongst the Dalits, later he changed his stance, saying that the Maratha reservation was worth emulating, as it’s a silent protest.
When Nation Next asked him whether the BJP pressurised him to change his stance on the Maratha protest, he said. “The Maratha agitation is led by common people and is apolitical in nature. It has no political backing. People voluntarily joined the protest, as they were outraged due to the Kopardi rape incident. Dalits don’t have a reason to fear, as the Marathas’ demand to review Atrocities Act won’t adulterate the law. It will only ensure that the act doesn’t get misused. The act won’t be repealed anyway.”
He also said, There’s a lot of unrest among Maratha, Gujjars and Jat communities. They are socially backward and face lot of problems in education field. The Parliament should increase the caste-based reservation up to 75%. No reservations on the basis of economic criteria would be accepted.
Athawale announced that he’d be organising a Dalit-Maratha unity rally? on October 19 to make peace between Dalits and Marathas. He also declared that the scholarships ranging from Rs 230 to Rs 1200 per month would be granted to almost 68 lakh students belonging to SC, ST and OBC categories.
Nagpur News
Nagpur doctor invited as key speaker at Joint American Homeopathic Conference 2023 in US
Dr Kavita Chandak
Homeopath from Nagpur Dr Kavita Chandak, who has two Golden Book Of World Records for treating kidney disorders and success in a case of Mucor mycosis in her name, has been invited as a keynote speaker at the Joint American Homeopathic Conference 2023 based on the theme, Homeopathy in 21st century at San Antonio in United States.
In society, we get to see many cases where child born with mental or physical defects such as congenital heart defects, mental retardation, Down’s syndrome, Cleft palate, ADHD, Autism etc. though born from healthy parents. What could be the reason behind it?
Could homeopathy offer something for it? Dr. Chandak will deliver a 90 minutes session on March 26 on ‘Advancing a Healthier Generation with Homeopathy: Preventative measures for healthy birth and treatment approaches for unimpaired growth.’
She will throw light on the pre-birth causes in mother disturbing the birth of healthy baby creating mental and physical defects as well the preventive measures for initiating the creation of strong generation with Homeopathy.
Dr Chandak is an international trainer and speaker who has specialised in autism, psychiatric and behavioural disorders, kidney diseases and cancer. She has authored eight books and 294 health articles. She will be a keynote speaker in upcoming international congresses of Russia, Romania, Greece and the World Congress of Homeopathy, Colombia.
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Dipen Agrawal
Dr Dipen Agrawal, President – Chamber of Associations of Maharashtra Industry & Trade (CAMIT) has been nominated as member in Central Goods & Service Tax Grievance Redressal Committee (CGST GRC) Nagpur Zone.
At the outset Dr Dipen Agrawal while thanking Ramchandra Sankhla Chief Commissioner CGST, Vijay Rishi Commissioner Nagpur – 1 and Shri Abhay Kumar Commissioner Nagpur – 2 for giving representation to CAMIT in the recently reconstituted GRC for Nagpur Zone, said, the GRC has enabled revenue officers to have first-hand feedback on various policy initiatives undertaken by government. It also helped in ironing out the difficulties faced by trade in implementing provisions of GST, and to make GST a Grievance-free System of Taxation.
Dr Dipen Agrawal has appealed to fellow traders to forward/share their issues on [email protected] so as to get them addressed in the GRC Meetings. Active and quality participation of trade and professional associations in the committee will achieve the goals of resolving all grievances and issues faced by the tax collectors i.e. traders.
GRC is a platform to voice their grievances including procedural difficulties and IT related issues pertaining to GST and redressal at local level added Dr Agrawal.
Also read: NMC spends ₹20 crore on lighting trees for C20 in Nagpur
Ahead of the C20 meet, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has spent a staggering ₹20 crore on the lighting of trees on both sides of the roads of airport road, Wardha Road, Walker’s Street, airport road to RBI Square to name a few.
Also, over one lakh nails were hammered on 3000 trees for the installation of lights leaving several activists and residents irked. The C20 meet is scheduled for March 20 and 21 where hundreds of participants from 20 countries would be arriving in the city for a summit.
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