✅ 10. Public Procurement from SCs

📃 #CongressManifesto : Scope of #PublicProcurement Policy will be expanded. Award more contracts to contractors belonging to SC.

📢 #CasteCentre : It will give boost to entrepreneurship in SC community. Ensure easy access to low-interest loans.

✅ 16. Rohith Vemula Act

📃 #CongressManifesto : Enact Rohith Vemula Act. Address #discrimination faced by students in educational institutions.

📢 #CasteCentre : Promising a separate specialised statute is good. Ensure #criminalisation of hounding of #reserved category students.

❌ 4. Scholarship Scheme for SCs

📃 #BJPManifesto : Ensure that no student of OBC, SC & ST are deprived of higher education. Expand existing #scholarships .

📢 #CasteCentre : Doesn't mention anything about shortcomings in #NOS scheme. Officer in charge of scholarship must be SC.

❌ 1. SC & ST (PoA) Act, 1989

📃 #CongressManifesto : Act will be enforced diligently. Helpline in every State. Legal aid & paralegal support.

📢 #CasteCentre : We have been waiting for 'diligent' enforcement since 1989. Need a complete overhaul of the Act. Close all #loopholes .

🚨 #BJPManifesto | #SankalpPatra | #ManifestoReview #DalitManifesto #CasteReview | 🧵

✅ Positives:

🔵 Guarantees that lives of all the marginalised sections of the society will be improved.

🔵 Guarantees that Viksit Bharat will be Inclusive Bharat.

✅ 4. 50% Cap on Reservation

📃 #CongressManifesto : Constitutional amendment to raise 50% cap on #reservations .

📢 #CasteCentre : It will ensure #ProportionalRepresentation of the #marginalized communities, and will help implement the constitutional meaning of #equality .

❌ 11. Scholarship to SCs

📃 #CongressManifesto : Funds for scholarships for SC students will be doubled. Aid to study abroad.

📢 #CasteCentre : Ignores major follies in #NOS Scheme. Separate scholarship for Masters & Ph.D. Officer in charge of scheme should be from SC community.

❌ 6. Empowerment of Safai Karamcharis

📃 #BJPManifesto : Started Namaste Yojana. Ensured safety, respect and livelihood. Continue to expand these initiatives.

📢 #CasteCentre : No mention of abolishing the artificial distinction between #ManualScavenging and hazardous cleaning.

✅ 5. SCs in 10% EWS Reservation

📃 #CongressManifesto : #Reservation of 10% for EWS will be implemented for all #castes and communities.

📢 #CasteCentre : It will ensure equitable #representation of the EWSs of all communities. However, the income criterion should be lowered.

✅ 1. District Level Committee

📃 #BJPManifesto : Establish District level committee to ensure that #welfare schemes reach lowest level. Adequate representation for SCs.

📢 #CasteCentre : It's a novel initiative. District Administration must be made accountable to the committee.

❌ 7. Abolish Contractualisation

📃 #CongressManifesto : Abolish #contractualisation of regular jobs in gov/public sector. Ensure regularisation.

📢 #CasteCentre : Manifesto ignored the recent phenomenon of lateral entries. Ensure reservation in #LateralEntry into civil services.

✅ 3. Caste Census

📃 #CongressManifesto : Nation-wide socio-economic and #caste census. Enumerate #caste s and sub-castes.

📢 #CasteCentre : It will provide quantifiable data which will then become the basis for ensuring #ProportionalRepresentation of marginalized communities.

❌ 2. Representation of SCs in Governance

📃 #BJPManifesto : 60% ministers in Union Council from OBC, SC & ST. Committed to #adequate participation of all sections.

📢 #CasteCentre : We don't need 'adequate' but 'proportionate' representation. #CasteCensus is the way forward.

❌ 8. Reservation in Private Sector

📃 #CongressManifesto : Enact law to provide for #reservation in #private educational institutions.

📢 #CasteCentre : Manifesto should have also mentioned reservation in #PrivateSector jobs. Just having a #DiversityCommission is not enough.

✅ 14. Ambedkar Bhavan-cum-Library

📃 #CongressManifesto : Establish #Ambedkar Bhavans/Libraries in every district. Promote habit of reading & discussion.

📢 #CasteCentre : Utilise for running #caste -sensitisation workshops. Reading of 'Annihilation of Caste' should be promoted.

❌ 17. Diversity Commission

📃 #CongressManifesto : Establish a #DiversityCommission . Measure, monitor & promote diversity in public & private employment & education.

📢 #CasteCentre : Measuring, monitoring & promoting is not enough. Ensure diversity through statutory enactments.

❌ 2. Manual Scavenging

📃 #CongressManifesto : End #manualscavenging . Strict implementation of Prohibition of Manual Scavenging Act, 2013.

📢 #CasteCentre : No mention of ending the artificial distinction b/w manual scavenging and hazardous cleaning. Ensure 100% #mechanization .

✅ 15. Scheduled Caste Sub Plan

📃 #CongressManifesto : Pass a law authorising allocation of resources for SC #SubPlan within annual budget. Monitoring execution of plans.

📢 #CasteCentre : Monitoring should be under the control of ministers & officers belonging to SC community.

✅ 9. Institutional Credit to SCs

📃 #CongressManifesto : Enhance #InstitutionalCredit to SCs for home-building, starting businesses and purchasing assets.

📢 #CasteCentre : It will ensure #EconomicEmpowerment of the SC community. Ensure low interest rates and zero collateral.

✅ 3. Livelihood Opportunities for SC Families

📃 #BJPManifesto : Expand livelihood opportunities for OBC, SC & ST. Double #MUDRA loan limit to ₹20 lakh.

📢 #CasteCentre : It will ensure economic empowerment of the SC community. Ensure low interest rates and zero collateral.