 bill no xii of 2012 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2012 a bill further to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-third year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2012short title and commencement5(2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appointamendment of article 392 in article 39 of the constitution, after clause (f), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—"(g) that there is equality in status, income, facilities and opportunities in employment whether of  religious or secular nature of valmiki community "10explanation— the valmiki community refers to a caste amongst indian hinduswho were traditionally treated as untouchables and were historically restricted to three occupations of cleaning latrines, sweeping and scavenging statement of objects and reasonsvalmiki is the only community within the hindu caste structure to clean toilets and carry night soil due to historical and traditional practices every other community, even amongst the scheduled castes, regard them as untouchables and in large parts they do not eat or inter marry with them they are the 'untouchables' amongst 'untouchables' it is the most discriminated caste in india, nepal, bangladesh and pakistan they could not be assimilated in the main stream of hindu society to a large extent as the caste identity based discriminations are still very strongin 1970s the state of karnataka passed a law to ban manual scavenging the employment of manual scavengers and construction of dry latrines (prohibition) act, 1993 punishes the employment of scavengers or the construction of dry (non-flush) latrines with imprisonment for up to one year and/or a fine of rs 2,000 though, the central government proposes to table in the monsoon session (2012) of parliament, the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers and their rehabilitation bill, still more need to be done as even after 63 years of independence, the human beings in our country are forced to do such demeaning, soul searing work it is high time that urgent steps be taken by the state to wipe out the social tag and the shameful practices, inequalities in status, income, facilities and opportunities of the employment thus the proposed amendment is necessary for bringing the valmikis in the main stream which also seeks to ensure their employment as priests in hindu temples after gaining appropriate and satisfactory training and knowledge from prescribed authorities, so that they do not face perpetual marginalisation, social fixation of their vocation, subjugation and isolation in the otherwise upper caste dominated societyhence, this billtarun vijay———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india—————(shri tarun vijay, mp)gmgipmrnd—1029rs—(s3)—11052012