Citizens belonging to SCs, STs, religious minorities and women have suffered discrimination due to their social identities and this in turn has affected their access to resources, opportunities and even civil rights, Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Saturday said.
He was delivering inaugural address at the Decennial Celebration Conference of Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS) on ‘Inequality Revisited: Theory, Evidence, and Policy’ in Jawaharlal Nehru University here.“The Scheduled Castes and the OBCs suffer caste-based discrimination. The tribals endure both physical and social isolation. Religious minorities, principally the Muslims, lag behind the majority population in most human development indicators and also experience social discrimination,” he said.