West Bengal: Selectively Hiring Doms To Cremate COVID Victims Reflects Casteist Mentality
The government is replicating caste-based division of labour, against which the Dalit community has been struggling and sacrificing their lives for centuries.
Representative image of last rites of a COVID-19 victim. Photo: PTI
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The Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of West Bengal has been issuing a series of orders regarding the selective hiring of ‘Dom’ caste for disposing COVID-19 positive dead bodies. The nature of these orders is
prima facie casteist, and by resembling the caste (
jati) system, diminishes the values of the Indian constitution.