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Kushinagar (UP): While September was National Nutrition Month, Musahars in UP are dying of starvation, said a report on Monday. The Musahars are a Mahadalit community that depends on rats as their primary source of nutrition. However, according to The Times of India, the administration took note of their condition only after two brothers, 16 and 22 respectively, lost their lives on September 14.

Sonwa Devi, their mother, got some food from the administration when her sons died, ostensibly due to starvation. A pile of foodgrains in her room was a sight for her neighbours, said the report. A few kilometres away, in Rakba Dulma Patti village, Virendra Musahar lost his wife Sangeeta and six-year-old son Shyam on September 6. His daughter Geeta, two months old, passed away five days later. “We survive on anything that is eatable,” Virendra told the daily. He had sold off his handcart a few months ago to feed his family. The daily wage labourer has hardly got any work since.

Sangeeta was registered with MGNREGA but her card is empty because she did not get any work. Officials left food grain with Virendra when she died but those won’t last forever.

“My 10-year-old son Laxman died some years ago in a similar manner. These packets of food and money will delay our deaths for some time,” he said.

Government officials insist the deaths were not hunger-related even as starvation has haunted the community for ages. According to government records, Sangeeta and her kids died of diarrhoea. Kushinagar s chief medical officer Haricharan Singh said Sonwa Devi s boys died of cardiorespiratory failure and pulmonary tuberculosis. One of them also had poliomyelitis. “The two brothers didn t die of hunger but from TB. A probe is underway to see if they got treatment for the disease. Our government has given jobs, ration cards and houses to Musahars. The family had a ration card too,” UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath had said shortly after the deaths.

But TB officer Rakesh Kumar from Padrauna block said that tests done by him revealed no such thing. “Senior officials have been warning me not to reveal the truth,” he told the daily. Sonwa Devi also trashed the claim. “Government doctors kept telling us there was nothing wrong with my boys. Staff asked for money to get them admitted. They died within hours of being admitted, without food or medicine,” she said. “We do not have a ration card, but a number which we have to quote at the PDS shop, which gives us what and how much it wants.”

“Rats and snails are what help us survive,” said Usha of the neighbouring village. “Most of us live on daily wages. We get only rice or wheat from PDS shops. We have no idea how much they give us, but it’s too little. When we need money for anything else, including medicines, we sell the grains to city people. When we fall sick, we just die.

https://m.timesofindia.com/india/in...tle-starvation-death/articleshow/66112623.cms
 
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MahaDalits get

1. Reservation in schools
2. Children get free schooling, boarding, food & monthly expenses from govt.
3. They get free rations every month
4. They get reservation in jobs
5. Reservation in higher education with stipend etc

MahaDalits can walk to any govt office and say they are Dalits & they will be taken care off by the govt.
Why are they eating rats when they are getting free everything?
 
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MahaDalits get

1. Reservation in schools
2. Children get free schooling, boarding, food & monthly expenses from govt.
3. They get free rations every month
4. They get reservation in jobs
5. Reservation in higher education with stipend etc

MahaDalits can walk to any govt office and say they are Dalits & they will be taken care off by the govt.
Why are they eating rats when they are getting free everything?
On paper reservations, otherwise indian officials demand bribery for everything, corruption is more common everywhere and as hindu hardliners are beneficiary of the system so they tend to protect it and deny everything that raise concern against them.
 
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MahaDalits get

1. Reservation in schools
2. Children get free schooling, boarding, food & monthly expenses from govt.
3. They get free rations every month
4. They get reservation in jobs
5. Reservation in higher education with stipend etc

MahaDalits can walk to any govt office and say they are Dalits & they will be taken care off by the govt.
Why are they eating rats when they are getting free everything?
Abey brahman, don't make stuff up. You aren't a shudra. You are a South Indian Brahmin, so stop lying.

Reservation does not mean free jobs. They need to have some education to study for government education. Most starvation death victims in India are dalits. They are denied opportunities to make a living.

Only 1% dalits avail reservations. So lie somewhere else you brahmin snake.

On paper reservations, otherwise indian officials demand bribery for everything, corruption is more common everywhere and as hindu hardliners are beneficiary of the system so they tend to protect it and deny everything that raise concern against them.
He is a lying snake. They only get reservation in government colleges. They get discounts in admission.Again there are no government colleges in many regions of India.

How can a family who can't even afford a single meal a day, educate their children and ask to prepare for government jobs?

Only 1% dalits avail reservation. There is only 7.5 reservation quota for them.

This brahmin snake speaks like they enjoy 100% reservation.
 
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Abey madarchod

@Oscar

he just abused my mother.
Please do the needful

South Indian Brahmin, so stop lying.

The only harmis in South India are the vatican rapists who have been destroying us South Indians, raping our children.
Please ask Pope to get his rapists out of South India.
We don't want these rapists here.
 
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@Oscar

he just abused my mother.
Please do the needful



The only harmis in South India are the vatican rapists who have been destroying us South Indians, raping our children.
Please ask Pope to get his rapists out of South India.
We don't want these rapists here.
Harami ke pille, you have been abusing other religion. And posting lies.



You should be banned permanently
 
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MahaDalits get

1. Reservation in schools
2. Children get free schooling, boarding, food & monthly expenses from govt.
3. They get free rations every month
4. They get reservation in jobs
5. Reservation in higher education with stipend etc

MahaDalits can walk to any govt office and say they are Dalits & they will be taken care off by the govt.
Why are they eating rats when they are getting free everything?

Your attitude is why India will be in perpetual poverty and why it need to end the caste system. If Hinduism is what spread the caste system, than it need to be regarded as an evil cult and illegalized. Dalit are dying of starvation and you are complaining of their government reservations. Shame on you. Stop categorized individuals by caste, otherwise, your celebrated Indian democracy is a sham.
 
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Your attitude is why India will be in perpetual poverty and why it need to end the caste system. If Hinduism is what spread the caste system, than it need to be regarded as an evil cult and illegalized. Dalit are dying of starvation and you are complaining of their government reservations. Shame on you. Stop categorized individuals by caste, otherwise, your celebrated Indian democracy is a sham.

Only idiots or bozos think my post is a complaint.

I am stating facts.
There is no reason why MahaDalits should be eating rats when all they have to do is take their kid to ANY GOVT school.
All govt schools have meals programs running in them.
Apart from that there is Aangan Wadi program.

We Hindus are fighting caste system, we don't need paedophile supporters teaching us how to fight our ills.
Wash your bottoms first, they stink.
 
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