Indian high cast students refuse to eat food cooked by low cast Hindus

[Spring Onion]

Midday meals cooked by dalits go waste
Akshaya MukulAkshaya Mukul, TNN | Jun 7, 2011, 04.24am IST

NEW DELHI: A dalit chief minister in Mayawati has not changed the deep-seated caste bias in schools of Uttar Pradesh. In 40% schools of Shahjehanpur, Badaun and Pilibhit districts, teachers do not taste the mid-day meal food and students refuse to eat it since the cooks belong to lower caste.

The rot in MDM in these three districts is not confined to caste bias alone. It has also been found that in schools of urban areas of these three districts roti and green vegetables are never given, in 80% schools there is difference between the number of actual students present in the class and the number of students who are shown to be availing of MDM. Also, in most of the schools in urban areas there are no utensils.

In rural areas of these districts, MDM supplies of 95% of the schools are kept at the pradhan's house from where they are brought to the school every day for cooking.

The report on three districts was prepared by Lucknow University's department of education. It was discussed, along with another report on Maharajganj district, in the MDM's Project Advisory Board meeting last month in the HRD ministry. The Centre has now asked the UP government to look into the matter and send a report by July 31.

The report said that in the three districts upper primary school children take less mid-day meal than those in the primary sections because the "upper primary children belonging to general category are more aware of caste system and do not like to take mid-day meal prepared by SC cooks".

The report said in 10% schools of rural areas of these districts, village pradhans do not give the required quantity of food grain for cooking mid-day meal. It also said that in 95% schools of these districts children bring their own utensils. Also, non-iodised salt is used in 5% of schools and 30% schools used wood for cooking mid-day meals.

Another report – prepared by GB Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, and Lucknow University – based on a survey of 110 schools of Maharajganj district said that MDM was not served in 50% of the sample schools.

Midday meals cooked by dalits go waste - The Times of India

 

[Respect4Respect01]

i hate those "high class" ppl from bottom of my heart,

they think that "low class" people are not human.

i got few words to say : burn in hell.

 

[CardSharp]

open a separate thread for your questions.

for time being any comment on the current topic?

His automatic defensiveness aside, I'd also be interested in a post from roy addressing the actual topic. I remember him saying at one point that he is from a scheduled caste.

 

[Spring Onion]

lol dude, i would answer u , but then a fight is gonna breakout and the thread will derail,

n Dont ever bring Islam and Muslims in to derail the thread

the topic is about India and inhuman behaviour based on cast system towards dalits so there is no room for bringing others into this topic.

anyway can any Indian tell me what is the ration of Low cast Hindus in India? are they in majority or minority ?

 

[Leader]

nothing new,#

and now indian trolls will rush...first denying if there is any caste system present at all...denying if they know anything like it, and saying it is a matter of some distance past, then accepting it in some areas, and so on...

 

[Leader]

His automatic defensiveness aside, I'd also be interested in a post from roy addressing the actual topic. I remember him saying at one point that he is from a scheduled caste.

I remember he claimed to be a Barhiman by caste, but his father didnt use it, so that he doesnot feel superior....

 

[CardSharp]

I remember he claimed to be a Barhiman by caste, but his father didnt use it, so that he doesnot feel superior....

Might have been someone else then. Still it would make for a more informative discussion if Pak/Chn members can refrain from being insulting and Indian members can refrain from being defensive and toeing the nationalist line.

 

[gaurish]

open a separate thread for your questions.

for time being any comment on the current topic?

Jana nobody beats you in anti India bashing.....

Ok about the MDM scheme its more about the quality of food which is served and children coming from healthy and wealthy famalies of India dont want to have the meal ... as simple as that as it is not the case of caste....

In temple trusts across all over India food is cooked by all people belonging to various sections of the society ... Yet devotes rush is millions to have this food which is called as mahaprasad... And the quality of food is good here because the temple trust keeps quality check strict...

What happens with the mid day meal scheme is that the contractors who get the contract tries to make big cut in the supply and supply lower quality of food which reduces his costs and increases his profits but thus affecting the quality of food and endangering the health of the children...

So many parents prefer their child not to have thye MDM scheme .................. SIMPLE AS THAT .....

If caste was the problem All rich people and upper caste people in India would not eat from reataurants and pulic places anywhere ...

Practically even in MNC like Dominoz, Pizza Hut, Mc Donalds , KFC the food can be cooked by Low caste people...............

 

[IFB]

i hate those "high class" ppl from bottom of my heart,

they think that "low class" people are not human.

i got few words to say : burn in hell.

Brahmins feel they somehow are far superior than say a non brahmin.....many times i have seen this myself....but not all of them are like that that too i wnat to stress.

 

[gaurish]

the topic is about India and inhuman behaviour based on cast system towards dalits so there is no room for bringing others into this topic.

anyway can any Indian tell me what is the ration of Low cast Hindus in India? are they in majority or minority ?

If you ask a true Indian like me i would answer your question this way ....

In India you would get High quality Humans who are called Indians .......................

I know the intentions of your thread and your question but i prefer not to indulge with u..

 

[Roybot]

His automatic defensiveness aside, I'd also be interested in a post from roy addressing the actual topic. I remember him saying at one point that he is from a scheduled caste.

Thats the point, even though being born in a Brahmin family I don't mind calling myself a scheduled caste. Mind you I don't see myself as a Brahmin, I was just born in a Brahmin family.

I remember he claimed to be a Barhiman by caste, but his father didnt use it, so that he doesnot feel superior....

I was born in Brahmin family, my dad didn't put surname in my birth certificate, cause he thought I would get discriminated against.

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As for the topic, castiesm still exists in certain pockets of Indian society, no point denying. Uttar Pradesh is mired with caste based politics. And the regions/districts this report is from has had caste based violence in the past.

Believe it or not, in states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh there is more discrimination by Scheduled Castes and Other Backward caste(OBC) people against the Dalits than by the "Forward Castes". Unfortunately these two states also happen to be the poorest and least educated states of India. So whats new year, social vices are more prevalent in the lower strata of the society.

 

[ephone]

The caste system is the demon indians need seriously face and solve. It is deeply rooted in indian society. Your government always say such caste system is history and past. Whoever say that is really just lying. Well, it is not.

 

[kak1978]

lol dude, i would answer u , but then a fight is gonna breakout and the thread will derail,

n Dont ever bring Islam and Muslims in to derail the thread, ik u very well, u bring Islam into everything,

Pure Hippocratic! The original article never referred to any hindus , yet the title of the thread says "low cast Hindus" its you guys who bring religion into everything. Caste discrimination is a problem and illegal according to law in India, we acknowledge it. The situation is not going to change overnight. The only way it can be tackled is through education and that takes time.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

This shi*t happens in the sTate of U.p a lot . That is why it is one of the most backward and poor states of India . U.P people have to move on or be left behind when the rest of India is moving along into prosperity.

 

[praveen]

ROTFLAMO,these threads are telling new things to me about indian education