To monitor the atrocities targeted towards Dalits and Adivasis in the country and to ensure speedy justice to them, a web based tool, Atrocity Tracking and Monitoring (ATM) system has been launched by the National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ).
A two-day training workshop will also be organised in March here to promote the use of ATM amongst the concerned stakeholders.
Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are two of the most vulnerable communities in India in terms of discrimination and violence.
"The ATM system has been built with an objective of providing a tool in the hands of the Dalits and Adivasi to report atrocity and avail timely justice. ATM is also extremely useful for Dalit human rights activists and organisations to create and maintain a repository of cases, track records and facilitate information exchange for timely action," said VA Ramesh Nathan, General Secretary, National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ).
"At present, more than 100 atrocity cases have been reported from different parts of the country. The users of concerned states have sent Email and SMS notifications to the officials in their region regarding the cases of atrocities against dalits," he said.
As per the National Crime Records Bureau (2001-12), nearly 3,70,234 crimes have been committed against SCs and STs, 15,917 women have reportedly been raped, 7,900 murdered, 49,514 brutally attacked and severely injured, and 1,59,692 other forms of atrocities have been committed.
Only 32 per cent of crimes have been registered under SC and ST (PoA) Act, and the conviction rate the Act is meagre 24.8 per cent. 2351-9201
ATM helps in creating triggers and alerts through emails and short messaging system by various stakeholders in order to monitor the atrocity acts against Dalits and Tribals in different parts of our country.
