Dalit commission lost budget?

Apart from the salary and administrative expenses of officials and employees, only 2 lakh program budget has been allocated, so it is clear that the state is not ready to make the commission successful, it is also insensitive to the Dalit community. After the government's attitude was excessive, Chairman Vishwakarma recently said to the Prime Minister, "Either give the commission a budget, or take my resignation."

It is suspected that there is a conspiracy to remove the commission from the constitution by saying that the status quo element, which does not like changes like republic, federalism, secularism, proportional representation, is unreasonable. Also, the commission was weakened by having to make it quasi-judicial at the outset. Lack of budget is the biggest challenge for the commission, which has faced problems such as lack of staff and frequent transfers, the problem of not being appointed by the secretary of the ministry when the secretary is at the joint secretary level, the Ministry of Liaison is not the Prime Minister's Office, but the Ministry of Federal Affairs, and the lack of environment for other institutional development.

Article 255 of the Constitution provides for the Commission, while Article 256 specifies the duties, duties and rights of the historically deprived communities. In which it is mentioned that after studying the situation of Dalit community and recommending to the government for policy, legal and institutional reforms to be done in relation to it, formulating a policy program for Dalit upliftment and development, monitoring the compliance and implementation of laws and recommending to the government the necessary policy program for integrating Dalits into the mainstream of the nation. . The commission does not have the organizational capacity, manpower, or budget to fulfill such intensive workload as set by the constitution. There is a constitutional provision to review the commission every 10 years. However, officials were appointed only 5 years after the announcement of the constitution.

The state should encourage the commission to end caste discrimination and untouchability, to work for the upliftment of the Dalit community, to empower the Dalit community as soon as possible, to prepare policies and program strategies accordingly. However, the state, on the contrary, has shown a tendency to abuse the commission by making it without a budget. Those in power seem to be exploiting the state's dhikuti more than ancestral wealth. The state is apathetic in allocating the budget for the upliftment, development and rights of the Dalit community. Despite falling into the cycle of poverty, discrimination and exploitation, 14 percent of Dalits pay taxes to the state with their blood and sweat. However, who gave them the right to prohibit the budget to the state administrator?

According to international standards, the Commission should be formed according to the Paris Principles and made autonomous and inclusive and should be given a sufficient budget. The United Nations' SARD Committee has also recommended adequate budget allocation. If the Dalit movement was strong, the government would have allocated sufficient budget for the entire Dalit community and the Commission. However, the Dalit movement, which should be like a 'Filing of fire' that people are afraid to touch, has become like a 'drop of dew'. As far as the situation is concerned, when KP Oli was the Prime Minister, under the Bhagat Sarvajit Shilp Utthan program, a budget of over 500 crores was allocated for the first time to modernize the professions of the Dalit community. As the Dalit movement did not show interest in implementation, the budget was wasted. What is the work of the Dalit movement if they do not even demand the budget and are not interested in spending the budget allocated by the state? The movement was never interested in strengthening and making the constitutional commission built on the strength of the

movement. Last time, they boycotted for a long time expressing their disagreement with the process of appointing officials. Problems such as not accepting the commission, not helping, not warning, not taking any initiative for the budget, and not giving advice when asked for by the commission. Also, the commission is accused of not having sufficient coordination and cooperation with the movement, focusing on minor work rather than on research and policy level work, not organizing expert groups and focusing on a narrow circle.

Due to the lack of budget, the commission is unable to work, and the community has been affected greatly. On the pretext that the Commission has become constitutional, the government has deactivated the Dalit Development Committee, which is working on Dalit scholarships and economic development, and the Badi Development Committee, which is working for the Badi community. On the one hand, the irresponsibility of the state to make the government mechanism working for the Dalit community inactive in the name of the commission and on the other hand to make the commission without resources and means has broken the high expectations of the common Dalit community from the state's highest mechanism commission to work for the Dalit community.

Lately, killing, violence and discrimination against the Dalit community seems to have been rampant. In such a situation, the commission does not have the budget to work actively. According to the new constitution, it seems that the budget is hindering the commission to work on law making and amendment, to study the existing policies of the state and suggest new policies, to make the 16th plan Dalit-friendly.

In addition to this, the commission has not been supported by the budget to work in international areas like SARD, UPR, BNR, which are connected with various conventions. In essence, the commission has a long list of work to be done on behalf of the Dalit community, which is lagging behind in all fields including political, social, economic and educational due to political and structural discrimination and deprivation. However, by making the Commission like a beardless tiger without giving it budget, it has disappointed the Dalits.