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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that existent acquisition lies successful knowing the societal system.
After inaugurating a felicitation programme organised successful honour of K. Shivakumar, a recently elected Congress MLC, by the Dr. K. Shivakumar Felicitation Committee and the Federation of Dalit Organisations astatine the Senate Hall successful Manasagangothri present connected January 6, the Chief Minister said that without an knowing of the caste system, it volition beryllium intolerable to get ideological, technological and humanities knowledge.
“In the lack of technological and rational education, nine cannot beryllium understood properly, and radical volition thin to autumn prey to superstition and regressive practices,” helium said, adding that a mindset of slavery rooted successful centuries of caste favoritism and untouchability continues to persist and indispensable beryllium eradicated.
Observing that it is uncommon for Dalits to participate the tract of journalism, Mr. Siddaramaiah recalled that Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi were themselves journalists. While it whitethorn not beryllium imaginable for everyone to afloat emulate them, helium said sincere efforts indispensable beryllium made to travel the way they had shown. He said Dr. Shivakumar has consistently addressed societal issues and sought solutions done his enactment arsenic a journalist.
He advised the MLC to enactment for the payment of Dalits successful the Legislative Council and go a dependable for the voiceless.
Mr. Siddaramaiah said the State authorities had introduced assorted warrant schemes aimed astatine reducing inequality and promoting women’s empowerment, including the Shakti scheme. He besides criticised the Union authorities for failing to instrumentality the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) contempt being successful powerfulness for respective years.
Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa, in-charge Minister of Mysuru territory and Social Welfare Minister, K. Venkatesh, Minister for Animal Husbandry and Sericulture, and Tanveer Sait, MLA, besides spoke connected the occasion.
In his keynote address, elder writer Krishnaprasad said it was possibly for the archetypal clip that an English-language writer and a Dalit had been nominated to the Legislative Council successful the State, and thanked Mr. Siddaramaiah for the decision. He suggested that the MLC instrumentality up the origin of the University of Mysore, which is successful a crisis, and enactment towards ensuring that Mysuru does not spell the Bengaluru way.
Responding to the felicitation, Dr. Shivakumar said the recognition for his information went wholly to Mr. Siddaramaiah and that the felicitation was, successful fact, an honour to the Chief Minister. He said helium had agelong wished to enactment nether the enactment of Mr. Siddaramaiah, whom helium described arsenic a champion of societal justice.
The MLC urged the Chief Minister to capable backlog vacancies that person remained unfilled for years, motorboat a run to contented records for Dalit lands, and found survey centres connected Buddhism successful each universities crossed the State. He besides thanked Dr. Mahadevappa and promised that helium volition unrecorded up to the expectations of the Chief Minister and different leaders.
