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OUT OF MAINSTREAM: Meena Gill, a Valmiki Dalit, couldn't appear for J-K medical entrance exams.

OUT OF MAINSTREAM: Meena Gill, a Valmiki Dalit, couldn

J-K law bars Dalits from getting SC certificate

India will celebrate 60 years of being a republic on January 26, 2010, but it seems that BR Ambedkar's dreams are still unfulfilled. The 500 families of Valmiki Dalits in Jammu are forced to become sweepers as the Jammu and Kashmir law does not recognise their community, who are traditionally manual scavengers, as state subjects.

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