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They are no longer criminalised by the law. But nomadic and denotified tribal communities continue to be harassed by the police and neglected by the state.

New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Plan India, a not-for-profit organisation striving to advance childrens rights and equality for girls, today announced the winners of the 5th Edition of Plan India Impact Awards 2022 to honour the last-mile champions including frontline workers, youth leaders and changemakers for their outstanding efforts in ensuring the development and delivery of basic services for children, adolescents, women and men across all districts in our country.

Classified as 'illegal' settlers by the state, nomadic and denotified communities are still denied access to basic sanitation facilities, a recent audit has found.

The Nath Panti Gosavi Samaj Sanstha houses some of the most marginalised communities. Distrust of the system and the absence of an awareness drive by the government have seen the inoculation drive fall flat.

MEERUT: A group of policemen in plain clothes surrounded a car carrying a BJP functionary and four of his relatives in UP’s Shamli, allegedly opening fire that left one of the men with a bullet wound. The incident, caught on CCTV camera, shows a car pulling up in the middle of a road with its left indicator blinking and a bunch of men swiftly surrounding it. The car then speeds away, almost hitting two cops of the special operation group, reports Sandeep Rai. Senior police officers, caught o...