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Health for all is a basic right but do marginalised communities, like the Kalbelia community of Rajasthan, have access to it?

Rattled by the Supreme Court rejecting the review petition vis-a-vis the long-pending Maratha reservation issue, the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government on Friday decided to file a curative petition in the apex court and set up a new commission for a fresh survey. 

The action was taken days after Ambasamudram’s assistant superintendent of police Balveer Singh IPS was suspended after several complaints of custodial torture were reported against him.

The incident occurred in the Rajod Nagar area in the district on Thursday, and a video of the same went viral on social media.

The focus of the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment is the welfare of the poorest households of the socially, educationally and economically marginalized sections of the society including Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes, Seni

“Criteria and Procedure laid down by law Should be strictly followed in the inclusion of New castes in the List of Scheduled Tribes (STs),” said Akhil

The green sheets, which were meant to hide the residents of ASR Nagar, have instead thrust them into the limelight. Satish is now tired of having to detail his community’s migration to Vizag, and having to substantiate their status as long-term citizens.

An affinity test is not a conclusive test to decide caste claim and is not an essential part of the verification process of the caste/tribe claims, the Supreme Court held on Friday

The ongoing Mela in Maharashtra's Godhri village in Jalgaon district replaces the significant Pohra Devi pilgrimage, which some community members say is aimed at wooing Banjaras into the Hindu fold.

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.