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This #DalitHistoryMonth, meet Sunita Kureel, a first-generation learner who fought all odds to achieve her dreams and became the first person in her entire family to graduate and become a government employee at the age of 19! - Pranjali Kureel #TheyInspireMe #DalitHistoryMonth 
To escape caste-based slavery, her father had fled his home, situated in a small village in Uttar Pradesh to find work in Delhi, with almost no resources and contacts. After setting up a small business of stitching bags, he got married. #TheyInspireMe #DalitHistoryMonth
On 28 Dec 1971, she was born- second of the four daughters. She was a bright student in school who wanted to study mathematics but was forced to take up Arts. She still went on and passed the school, only to be told by her parents that they cannot afford to send her to college.
The National Crime Records Bureau (#NCRB) published the annual Crime in India Report 2018 recently. #DALITWOMENFIGHT's @elite_dalit and @_senpai_i explains what it says about crime and #atrocities against #DalitWomen and children. #TalkCaste #SCSTPOA
As per the NCRB data 2018, the total number of crimes and atrocities reported against the Scheduled Caste is 42793. In these 42793 cases, the rate of filing of chargesheet is 81.3%, while the pendency rate is 27.5%. #DALITWOMENFIGHT #TalkCaste #NCRB #SCSTPOA
The high number of chargesheets being filed also negates the false notion that most of the cases filed are “fake” & out of “revenge”. It’s extremely important to remember that these are only those cases of atrocities which are reported.The actual number is much higher. #TalkCaste
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#Budget2020 is atrocious for #DalitWomen! #DALITWOMENFIGHT's @elite_dalit, a trained budget analyst, explains how! #DalitBudget #GenderBudget
#Budget2020 is atrocious for #DalitWomen! #DALITWOMENFIGHT's @elite_dalit, a trained budget analyst, explains how! #DalitBudget #GenderBudget
POSHAN Abhiyaan, a scheme initiated by GoI aims at reaching out to women, men & children in general, irrespective of caste backgrounds.However, Rs. 764 crores in the year 2019-20 & Rs. 200 crores for the year 2020-21 have been diverted for the scheme from #DalitBudget.
The Adolescent Girls (AG) Scheme aims at breaking adolescent girls' inter-generational life-cycle of nutritional and gender disadvantage, irrespective of their caste background. Yet, Rs. 50 crores have been diverted from the #DalitBudget for the scheme.
As a Dalit woman, the last few days of India’s #MeToo have been both triggering and confusing. I’ve tried to follow it as much as I can and the more I do, I realise how important it is to have a conversation on value.
How are we (as women/non-men) valued in relationships, at work, inside our homes, and in our communities? And who are the ones determining this value? #MeToo
To me, that’s what #MeToo is all about - it ultimately boils down to whether women/non-men are treated as people who have feelings, a body, and a spirit. The fact that so many women, albeit from non-Dalit backgrounds, are outing men for their horrific behaviors +
#Dalitwomen are most often victims/survivors of sexual abuse, including of those that are not always legally identified as crimes. And the law has failed us. Progressive communities haven’t responded adequately either. It has been a lonely battle and will continue to be so.
Stories of sexual abuse, especially those that name Dalit men, are therefore uniquely triggering for us. We stand by the survivors, like we all need to, unequivocally, because we are victims ourselves.
We believe the victims, their EVERY WORD, because we’ve lived through the experience of being dismissed as liars so often, by friends and allies alike.
