For the Mahadalits?

The Mahadalit Commission, set up in 2007, carved out a new category in Bihar’s Dalits, of the most deprived of the deprived. By giving them a new name, the Nitish Kumar government promised to better target the schemes meant for their uplift. The strategy was sound in principle: many special programmes disproportionately benefit those Dalit sub-groups that are numerically dominant, or relatively better off on development parameters.

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