A year later, she floated a political party, the Samuga Samathuva Padai to become the voice of the voiceless and the oppressed. Disillusioned with the system, she quit the service and joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 2009. The discrimination is felt in all levels,” Sivakami said, adding it was her father who inspired her to become a civil servant. No Dalit has been given these posts for the last 60 years. “The post of secretary in the industries, finance or home ministry is considered a key position. The funds meant for tribals were used for other projects,” she said, adding that no Dalit has held secretary-level positions in the home or finance departments in the last six decades, which she deemed significant. When I demanded to fill the posts of teachers in tribal schools, I was accused of running a parallel government. “To fill vacancies, I had to get approval from the cabinet and it was never a priority for them.
Many times, funds allocated for the tribal community were siphoned off for other projects and filling even a post of a teacher in a school for tribal children needed permission from the cabinet, which never listed it as a priority.
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