‘Don’t use word Dalit to identify anyone’
Punjab SC Commission Issues Guidelines
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chandigarh:22.09.2021
Taking note of the word ‘Dalit’ being used for newly appointed chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi in social media pages, print and electronic media, chairperson of the Punjab state scheduled castes commission Tejinder Kaur on Tuesday issued instructions to not use nomenclature ‘Dalit’ to mark identity of any person belonging to the scheduled castes .
The chairperson said the nomenclature ‘Dalit’ does not find mention in the Constitution of the country or any statute and moreover, the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment has already directed all chief secretaries of the state governments and Union territory administrations on this issue. She said the Madhya Pradesh high court bench in Gwalior had passed an order on January 15, 2018, in a public interst litigation ‘Dr Mohan Lal Mahor Vs Union of India & Ors’ and had directed that “the central government/ state government and its functionaries would refrain from using the nomenclature ‘Dalit’ for the members belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes as the same does not find mention in the Constitution of India or any statute”.
The chairperson said that the Union ministry had directed all the state governments and Union territory administrations to use the word “scheduled caste” instead of “Dalit” for the persons belonging to scheduled castes. The commission in a letter addressed to chief secretary Vini Mahajan on September 13 recommended renaming of villages, towns and other places named after castes and not use derogatory names such as Chamarheri etc.
The commission chairperson said that the nomenclature ‘Dalit’ does not find mention in the Constitution of the country
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