Tag: Caste System

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister of State for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale on Tuesday stated that inter-caste marriages should be encouraged to abolish caste system in the country. “If the chief minister (of Odisha) announces Rs 20-25 crore reward for the district reporting the maximum numbers of inter-caste marriages, people will be motivated to encourage this system. […]

Bolangir: It seems repeated awareness to shun caste system stigma has become irrelevant with the social evil still quite prevalent in many interior pockets of Odisha. In another appalling instance of inhumanity, a man had to carry the corpse of his father on bicycle after fellow villagers did not turn up for the last rites […]