In 1915 in a village named Ooruttambalam in Kerala,the great Dalit revolutionary Ayyankali took a Pulaya untouchable girl for admission into a Malayalam school.
In the run-up to Budget 2009,there was a demand to increase the allocation of funds for Dalits in the country under the Special Component Plan. Whether these demands have reached him or not,the Finance Minister promptly submitted a budget which reduced the SCP allocation for Dalits by 18 per cent.
