Crime Against Dalits

Present Scenario:

Embassy interlocutors report depicts that, limited government efforts to improve dalit (formerly called ""untouchables"") socio-economic status have shown little success, ensuring that they continue to face severe economic and social discrimination. Government reservation laws do not extend to the private sector, the largest and fastest growing segment of the economy. Most experts believe that the key to ending discrimination is a comprehensive education campaign starting at the primary level to teach acceptance of dalits, a topic completely absent from India's public school system.

Despite the passage of the Anti-Untouchability Act of 1955 and the Prevention of Atrocities Act of 1989, crimes against dalits are still a major social problem, and discrimination is widespread. According to annual report of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, all of the trappings of untouchability remain in rural India and rampant job discrimination occurs in India's cities and towns and approximately 18,000 caste-related discrimination cases filed annually with the Indian government are only a small fraction of the actual number. In 2014, total crime against SCs in which case

Their lack of access to jobs in the growing private sector, and limited access to land and capital, has led increasing numbers of dalits to convert to other religions, such as Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, which have not institutionalized caste, in hope of obtaining redress. However, for many, interpersonal and economic discrimination has continued despite conversion, as most caste Hindus in their local communities continues to regard them as Dalits despite their change of religion. That’s why a report said that over the past 125 years, so many Dalits have converted to Christanity that today the majority of the Christian population of India is