<p>Bengaluru: As many as 75% of the members of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the state are still facing untouchability, with the Madiga community having suffered the most, the Justice H N Nagamohan Das Commission’s report on internal reservation has found. </p>.<p>The Madigas (7.59 lakh complainant households) are followed by the Holeyas (6.53 lakh). Next follow Lambani (Banjara) and Bhovi communities with 3 lakh and 2.48 lakh complainant households, respectively. </p>.<p>“Of late, the magnitude of atrocities has increased. Cases of atrocities on SC women, mass killings and making them eat human excreta have increased,” the report notes. </p>.<p>As many as 15 castes were found to have faced ‘more social discrimination’, 28 faced ‘middle-level discrimination’, 38 castes faced ‘less discrimination’ and 22 castes faced ‘no discrimination’. This enumeration includes 101 castes on the SC list and two communities entitled ‘don’t know’ and ‘non-SC’.</p>.<p>“The survey has collected information about atrocities and social discrimination faced by the SCs. All the 101 SC castes are facing discrimination of one or the other type. The methods of oppression include preventing temple entry, denying permission to community dining, preventing entry to public places, practising bonded labour, separate seating arrangements, separate drinking glasses, rape, atrocities, discrimination in schools and so on,” the report states.</p>.<p>The report also notes that there have been 8,884 atrocity cases against the SCs in the last five years (2020-21 to 2024-25).</p>.No elector in Bihar to be deleted without prior notice, EC tells SC.<p>Amongst the 101 communities, the Adi Karnataka (AK) community filed the maximum number of cases (3,069). Since Adi Karnataka isn’t an original caste, this includes people from different SC sub-groups.</p>.<p>As many as 10 communities were found to have lodged over 100 cases in the last five years. These include Madiga, Holeya, Lambani, Bhovi, Adi Karnataka, Adi Dravida, Chalavadi, Korma, Moger and Chamar.</p>.<p>The report also found 45 castes that hadn’t registered a single complaint over the last five years. “This doesn’t mean that these communities haven’t faced untouchability or oppression. Even though small and sensitive castes also face discrimination, they aren’t empowered enough to question this and register complaints. Since these communities are dependent on other communities for their livelihood, they don’t register complaints,” the report said.</p>.<p>It further explains that only those communities which are socially, economically, educationally and politically advanced question these atrocities and lodge complaints.</p>.<p>“To question these atrocities, they must have courage and legal awareness. Alongside, the population of that caste in a specific region also matters. Forget questioning atrocities, these communities are unable to come out of the fear of social structures. The atmosphere conducive for that hasn’t yet been created,” it said.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: As many as 75% of the members of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the state are still facing untouchability, with the Madiga community having suffered the most, the Justice H N Nagamohan Das Commission’s report on internal reservation has found. </p>.<p>The Madigas (7.59 lakh complainant households) are followed by the Holeyas (6.53 lakh). Next follow Lambani (Banjara) and Bhovi communities with 3 lakh and 2.48 lakh complainant households, respectively. </p>.<p>“Of late, the magnitude of atrocities has increased. Cases of atrocities on SC women, mass killings and making them eat human excreta have increased,” the report notes. </p>.<p>As many as 15 castes were found to have faced ‘more social discrimination’, 28 faced ‘middle-level discrimination’, 38 castes faced ‘less discrimination’ and 22 castes faced ‘no discrimination’. This enumeration includes 101 castes on the SC list and two communities entitled ‘don’t know’ and ‘non-SC’.</p>.<p>“The survey has collected information about atrocities and social discrimination faced by the SCs. All the 101 SC castes are facing discrimination of one or the other type. The methods of oppression include preventing temple entry, denying permission to community dining, preventing entry to public places, practising bonded labour, separate seating arrangements, separate drinking glasses, rape, atrocities, discrimination in schools and so on,” the report states.</p>.<p>The report also notes that there have been 8,884 atrocity cases against the SCs in the last five years (2020-21 to 2024-25).</p>.No elector in Bihar to be deleted without prior notice, EC tells SC.<p>Amongst the 101 communities, the Adi Karnataka (AK) community filed the maximum number of cases (3,069). Since Adi Karnataka isn’t an original caste, this includes people from different SC sub-groups.</p>.<p>As many as 10 communities were found to have lodged over 100 cases in the last five years. These include Madiga, Holeya, Lambani, Bhovi, Adi Karnataka, Adi Dravida, Chalavadi, Korma, Moger and Chamar.</p>.<p>The report also found 45 castes that hadn’t registered a single complaint over the last five years. “This doesn’t mean that these communities haven’t faced untouchability or oppression. Even though small and sensitive castes also face discrimination, they aren’t empowered enough to question this and register complaints. Since these communities are dependent on other communities for their livelihood, they don’t register complaints,” the report said.</p>.<p>It further explains that only those communities which are socially, economically, educationally and politically advanced question these atrocities and lodge complaints.</p>.<p>“To question these atrocities, they must have courage and legal awareness. Alongside, the population of that caste in a specific region also matters. Forget questioning atrocities, these communities are unable to come out of the fear of social structures. The atmosphere conducive for that hasn’t yet been created,” it said.</p>