Pennsylvania: A resolution condemning the caste system in India, was recently passed at the General Assembly meeting at Pennsylvania.

Omni Development Relief fund (ODRF), an organization started by Dalit's settled in the USA, lobbied with the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass the resolution number HR 383 condemning the caste system in India.

The resolution was passed on March 10 and its main sponsor was Thaddeus Kirkland. The resolution was passed to sensitize the international community on the realities of caste-based discrimination in India .

The resolution said that because the caste system is such a powerful tool for social segregation, much of the population of India lives on less than USD 1 per day and are among the poorest people in the world.  

A copy of the resolution has been made available to UNI by an ODRF representative.

Source : UNI