Empowerment does not come by just building monuments or entering temples. Empowerment comes from economic development, access to modern education, Transportation facilities to markets for labour work or products in urban areas, access to healthcare and building awareness of laws & fundamental rights as laid down by the Law. Caste explotation of the poor & backward is very closely linked to economic & educational parameters. This society respects people with money or economic muscle. Any economically empowered backward community will automatically develop political might and relevance which can end exploitation. All these statues and grand memorials are mere tokenism and only useful to the birds like Crows & Pigeons who perch and shit on each one of them. A small PHC or school is thousand times more valuable than a statue or memorial
