Is it able to erradicte Poverty and Caste System in India?

Answer 1

Very difficult. In a way both are inter related. Caste system is a grouping on the basis of their work. But some are considered menial labour which is considered low in the society. What ever may be the attempt of the Government to eradicate Caste is very difficult. Caste grouping will return in some other form. Poverty eradication is still difficult. There will always be rich masters and poor labourers. Even the theory of Socialism practiced strictly by the Communists could not eliminate poverty fully.

Answer 2

Everything is possible if there is a will and a concious effert that goes into it.However to eradicate poverty and caste system in India it will need a great effort from the whole nation that to at a very large scale . It will need the Governments sincere and also it willl need to educate the masses because the prime cause of this social injustice is illeteracy.

Human Rights – Approach to Achieve Social Equity

The assertion that development is a human right is grounded in treaties that generate obligations on states to pursue human rights. Human rights are inter-related and interdependent, and human development is multi-dimensional. A human rights based approach espouses the principles of universality and indivisibility of rights. It takes empowerment, transparency, and accountability as operating principles. Such an approach puts people at the centre of development and sees them as agents who have rights to participate. Disadvantage, inequality, and discrimination are priority concerns, thus putting power at centre stage and leading to a need for disaggregated analysis of the root causes of oppression.

The UN Agencies have developed a “Common Understanding” which states that all its development cooperation should further the realisation of human rights as laid down in international human rights instruments and that development cooperation contributes to the development of the capacities of duty-bearers to meet their obligations and/or of rights-holders to claim their rights.
Indian state has recognized the problems of the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe arising out of exclusion /discrimination in 1950s and has developed policies to overcome their problems. The government’s approach towards the SC/ST draws primarily from the provisions in constitution. The constitution guarantees equality before the law (Artilcle 14) (over turning the customary rules of the caste system), makes provisions to promote the educational and economic interest of the SC/ST and to protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitations (Articles 46), provides for special measures through reservation in government services, and seats in democratic political institutions (Article330 and 335). Constitution legally abolished the practice of untouchability and discrimination arising out of untouchability (Article 17). It also provides for an establishment of a permanent Body to investigate and monitor social and economic progress of the Schedule castes on annual basis and set up monitoring mechanism at the centre and the state level.
Toward these ends the government has used two fold strategy, namely (a) Remedial measures and safeguards against discrimination in various spheres and (b) developmental and empowering measures, particularly in economic spheres. Remedial Measures against discrimination include enactment of Anti-untouchability act of 1955 (renamed as protection of Civil rights Act in 1979) and Schedule Caste/Tribe Prevention of Atrocities Act 1989 under which practice of untouchability and discrimination in public places and community life is treated as an offence. The second Act provides legal protection to the SC/ST against violence and atrocities by the high castes.
The ‘development is a human right’ approach leads to an understanding of caste equality based on empowerment and the realization of dalits’s human rights. This approach questions the socio, economic and political architecture into which caste and development thinking has tried to integrate Dalits. It calls for both a change in structural inequalities between groups, and a response to basic needs. Addressing groups equality mainstreaming Dalits is a method for achieving this approach when it is aimed at achieving group equality and when it is defined and applied as both mainstreaming of group analysis in all policy decisions and taking actions to address specific barriers to dalit’s empowerment. The critical contribution of the empowerment approach is its emphasis on participation and its commitment to a socio-economic transformation agenda that challenges all forms of oppression and domination, from the personal to the international, from the political to the economic.

Answer 3

bit difficult......