Dalit youth alleges lack of job in U.Okay. due to caste discrimination by Pune faculty

Prem Birhade, a Dalit youth primarily based in London, has alleged that he misplaced an employment alternative within the United Kingdom resulting from caste discrimination in India after the faculty he studied in — Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Pune — failed to offer the verification certificates to the employer in time.

In a video on Instagram 4 days earlier, Mr. Birhade stated in Marathi, “I’ve misplaced my job due to the faculty. This firm had requested my faculty if I had studied there. The faculty didn’t reply. Why? Because you don’t need us to get forward in life. This is the wrestle of me, my household, my group.”

The faculty denied the allegations and shared a duplicate of the bona fide certificates issued on 14 October. “We wish to make it clear that neither the faculty nor any employees member has ever raised or mentioned his caste at any time. The refusal to subject an Education Reference relies on institutional norms and disciplinary issues,” the faculty stated in a press release.

The Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) held a protest exterior the faculty. Its leaders claimed that Mr. Birhade’s household supposed to file a prison grievance towards the faculty for the misplaced alternative. The faculty stated that it had complained towards the youth for abusing girls academics.

VBA founder Prakash Ambedkar advised The Hindu: “The delay raises many questions on the intentions. Why was there a delay in replying to the corporate’s e-mail. You don’t have the proper to sit down over the matter.”

In a put up on X, Mr. Ambedkar alleged that the youth was “pressured to forfeit the chance… Because Prem is a Dalit!”

‘Responded promptly’

Gajanan Ekbote, chairperson of the Progressive Education Society that runs the faculty, stated, “The firm wrote two e-mails to us – one on September 30 and the opposite in the present day [Friday] morning. It didn’t point out the time interval for responding to the e-mails. The pupil sought a advice letter and a bona fide certificates. We couldn’t give a advice letter with out police verification, which remains to be pending. But we shared the certificates inside 10 minutes of the corporate writing to us for the second time, in the present day.”