TN govt offers incentives against untouchability

Even though the state boasts of being at the top in terms of industrial development,the scourge of untouchability continues to exist in Tamil Nadu,especially in the rural areas. At some places,there still are two-tumbler system where the upper and lower castes are served in different vessels at tea shops while at other places there are fences and walls built by caste Hindus to physically separate them from the lower castes.

At some other places,Dalits are not allowed to travel on vehicles while taking certain interior roads they have to get down from their bicycles or two-wheelers and push it through.

The most recent case was that of the untouchability wall at Uthapuram village where a wall built between caste Hindus and Dalits stood for nearly two decades.