The objective of the SC/ST Act is to deliver justice to the marginalised. 1. The Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is popularly known as POA, the SC/ST Act, the Prevention of ...

Home Minister mandates monthly grievance meetings for SC/ST police personnel to address welfare and service-related issues ...

In the Nagaraj case, the Supreme Court said that the government had to collect “quantifiable data showing backwardness of the class and inadequacy of representation of that class in public employment” ...

The nationwide protest by Dalit groups on April 20 had turned violent in several states, leaving at least 12 dead. “The Narendra Modi government cares about the development of our Dalit and Adivasi ...

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Lakshmi Venkataraman Venkatesan is founding and managing trustee, Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust . Kishor Kharat is former MD & CEO, IDBI Bank and Indian Bank. The recent Bihar caste survey brought out ...

Lucknow: In a landmark judgment aimed at curbing the misuse of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, a Special SC/ST Court in Lucknow on Thursday convicted a woman for lodging a false FIR and ...

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and Rules 1995 were brought in to ensure legal safeguards for scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) against ...

The Delhi High Court has said that the provisions of the SC/ST Act relating to wrongful occupation or dispossession of land belonging to people from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes cannot be ...

Clearing the air on the reservation policy to be followed by states and union territories, the Supreme Court on Thursday held that a person belonging to the Scheduled Caste or the Scheduled Tribe ...

Though the Centre claims that 19 of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) have dedicated cells for the welfare of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe (SC-ST) students, 16 of them are ...