Abolition of Untouchability

Untouchability survives in Tamil Nadu as active discrimination, not historical memory. Two-tumbler systems in tea shops, separate burial grounds, denial of priesthood, exclusion from village water sources, manual scavenging — each is a criminal pattern that the state has too often treated as a customary aberration. TVK refuses this framing entirely. The law exists; the failure has been enforcement.

District-level SC/ST Atrocities Cells, staffed by officers from the affected communities and supported by trained legal-aid panels, operate with independent prosecutorial referral authority. Cases involving caste atrocities must not depend on the goodwill of a local inspector — they require a dedicated, accountable institutional path to prosecution. Fast-track courts in every district handle caste-based discrimination and violence with a 90-day resolution mandate.

Positive support matches enforcement. Inter-caste marriage couples receive protection orders, housing access, and livelihood grants under an expanded state-level scheme. Former manual scavengers receive preferential access to self-employment credit and skill development programs — converting an inherited caste occupation into a voluntary economic choice and, finally, a history.