Caste discrimination is to be outlawed in the UK

                                                                                                     

London, 23 April: UK Business Secretary Vince Cable announced, in what is a U-turn on previous government policy, caste discrimination is to be outlawed by the UK Equality Act. The House of Lords has voted twice for legal protection to be given to the estimated 400,000 Dailts who live in the UK. MPs overturned the first Lords vote, but after the upper house again backed the plan, there was a rethink. Mr Cable said caste would in future be treated as “an aspect of race”. In the House of Commons debate earlier this month the government acknowledged the existence of caste discrimination in Britain.                                                         Published in  Forward Press,  May, 2013 Issue