Gandhinagar: Gujarat government has increased the income-limit for the aids given to the beneficiaries of scheduled castes (SC), progressing castes, minorities and Economically Backward Class (EBC), to Rs 6 lakh today on the 131st birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, as informed by minister of social justice and empowerment Pradipbhai Parmar. This will benefits over 1 lakh beneficiaries. The state government will have to bear additional Rs 50 crore for the same. The income limit for studen...Read More

Himnatnagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel today washed feet of a Schedule Caste widow lady with water, and worshiped her by applying Kanku chanla on the stage in a public function. The Chief Minister along with the State party chief CR Patil was attending a function at BAPS (Bochasanvasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha) Mandir hall at Kanklol near Himmatnagar in Sabarkantha district of North Gujarat in memory of late Ranjitsinh Chavda. The function was titled as 'Naryestu Vandana'. Patil al...Read More

Gandhinagar/Botad: Police has nabbed Eight of the total nine accused of the sensational murder of a deputy sarpanch in Jalila village of Botad district in Gujarat. Police said that after the murder of yesterday , initially 3 accused were nabbed today and later five more have been nabbed. Detailed investigation was on. Deputy Sarpanch Manji Solanki was allegedly killed by rivals. He was earlier given security cover due to threat on life but it was later withdrawn. His m...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani here today described protection and providing social justice to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Dalits and Oppressed by monitoring the entire vigilance machinery from the taluka to state level as his government’s first duty. He said that in no case could the government tolerate harassment and atrocity on the oppressed. He advocated severe punishment to the guilty and justice to the victims. He asked the departments concerned and p...Read More

Rajkot: 55-year old Mehbub Bhadula has been arrested for stealing spectacles from the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar in Mochi Bazar area of Rajkot today. A compliant was lodged on Tuesday by one Amit Cholera, Assistant manager of Cultural department of Rajkot Municipal Corporation(RMC) after the spectacles went missing from the statue. RMC had already given order for another spectacles. After the news regarding spectacle theft were viral on social media, a group of Schedule Caste persons had ...Read More

Surendranagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani while speaking in Independence Day function in Surendranagar district today made several new announcements: - Vanod in Patdi taluka of Surendranagar district will get a new Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation(GIDC) estate over 350 hectare land. It will be located just 15-20 km away from Hansalpur - Bechraji based auto ancillary industry hub. According to Rupani the new GIDC estate will benefit entire Gujarat. - Fourth phase of Gu...Read More

Ahmedabad: Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year, opposition Congress party has invented something which appears to shape up a dalit - tribal agitation eventually, against the BJP ruled state government. A few years ago, reservation issue was invented to position politically strong Patels against the BJP government. Some attempts were also made early this year to trigger anti-Padmawat movie agitation of Kshatriya against the BJP governments. Now in the case of dalits and tribal, Con...Read More

Ahmedabad: Two of the four accused in the case of beating of a Dalit youth in Bitthalapur village near Becharaji of Ahmedabad district today surrendered before the police. A police official said that one Jaydip alias Jaylo Zala who had allegedly made the video of the incident of beating up of the youth with caste-based abusing by youths of Darbar community and Chehar Thakore, both residents of village Endala, surrendered today and were arrested by the DySP of SC-ST cell. The...Read More

Bhavnagar: Here is one more alleged 'Dalit atrocity' crime story that has proven to be incorrect. A Dalit man in Bhavnagar was not killed because he was keeping/riding a horse. Police investigation has made it clear that he was actually killed for teasing a woman, following which woman's husband killed him. The accused who don't belong to upper caste, has been arrested. A Dalit youth Pradip Rathod (21) was killed on 29 March in Timbi village in Umrala taluka of Bhavnagar and his family, ...Read More