Read the provisions of the above law. Try to understand them with the help of your teachers. What efforts should be made to prevent atrocities?

The scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes (prevention of atrocities), act, 1989 is an act to prevent the commission of offenses of atrocities against the members of the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes.

Atrocity is “an expression commonly used to refer to crimes against Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in India”

The other names of this act are:

1. SC/ST Act,

2. POA,

3. the Prevention of Atrocities Act,

4. Atrocities Act.

The provisions of the act are divided as:

The Act and Rules are an effective mechanism and exactness instruments that can be used with the Right To Information (RTI) Act 2005 to encourage the state to hold the compulsory meetings and implement fulfillment.