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Highly acclaimed acid rehabilitation centre of Lucknow faces closure

CV News/ August 12, 2018

SheRose Hangout, Lucknow, set up in 2016 for the rehabilitation of acid victims, is facing closure, an acid victim, Anshu, has it made known through the People's Media Advocacy & Resource Centre (PMARC). The women inmates of the SheRose Hangout, says the information, are worried, as stage has been set to hand it over to a private firm, Lotus Hospitality, whose employees reach up to the inmates on a regular basis to vacate the centre, which runs SheRose Cafe as part of the rehabilitation programme.
According to Anshu, "With this, the morale of all the girls is broken and our jobs and other rehabilitation plans are facing closure. The salary of the employees is delayed for six to nine months." The centre is run with Grant from the Mahila Kalyan Nigam, a government corporation.
According to Anshu, "We have come to know that the corporation has stopped the amount of more than Rs 45 lakh grant, which is due the continuation of the project, as a punishment for not …

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Ahmedabad-Bhuj protest rally to be held if Majid, disappeared on July 19, isn't found: MCC

CV News/ August 14, 2018

The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), Gujarat, has warned that it would begin a wide-scale protest over the sudden disappearance of Majid Theba, 27, from his house in Bhuj on July 19 following cops entering his house, beating him up and his pregnant wife. Majid’s wife, Aashiyana Theba, who filed a FIR 26 years ago on disappearance of her husband, hasn’t heard from the police about the whereabouts of her husband.
“If Majid is not found, we will take out a rally from Ahmedabad to Bhuj”, said the Gujarat-based minority rights body, which has sought immediate intervention of the Gujarat DGP, the home minister and the chief secretary. The reason for beating up Majid and his sudden disappearance are not known.
MCC said, her family was having dinner when three policemen, including a head constable, came in asking for Majid. They started beating him. When Aashiyana tried to stop them, they thrashed her. She had to be admitted to GK General Hospital in Bhuj because of her pregnancy. On h…

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Campaign seeks BJP MLAs' support for law on Dalit-Adivasi budgetary allocation

CV News/ August 19, 2018

Gujarat-based Birsa-Ambedkar Swadhikar Andolan (BASA), set up by Dalit rights activists with the active support of Congress MLA Naushadh Solanki, has begun handing over representation to BJP’s Dalit MLAs, pressing them to impress upon state BJP rulers to pass a law which ensures that the proportion of budgetary allocation and spending for Dalit and Adivasi communities in the state is equal to percentage of their population in Gujarat — 7% and 15% respectively.
While a private member’s bill on this has been introduced in the Gujarat state assembly, BASA activists went to BJP MLA Pradip Parmar’s residence with a representation asking him to see to it that it is passed unanimously. Those who took part in the campaign included large number of Dalit leaders and activists.
On August 20, said a BASA release, it proposes to hand over a similar representation to another Dalit MLA from BJP, Manishaben Vakil. Those who will participate in a rally in Vadodara ahead of the representation, apart fr…

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