The 2017 budget of the government of India scrapped the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) and the Scheduled Tribe Plan (STP) that were made a constitutional guarantee in the 1970s.44 These plans’ premise was simple: funds would be distributed according to the demographics of caste. However, each successive government has sincerely failed to allocate the desired funds. Dalit activists have been staging demonstrations in the capital ever since, which have gone unnoticed by the dominant-caste propaganda machine: the Indian media.
