Identify the challenges to democracy in the following descriptions.
Also suggest policy / institutional mechanism to deepen democracy in the given situations:
(a) Following a High Court directive a temple in Orissa that had separate entry door for dalits and non-dalits allowed entry for all from the same door.
(b) A large number of farmers are committing suicide in different states of India.
(c) Following allegation of killing of three civilians in Gandwara in a fake encounter by Jammu and Kashmir police, an enquiry has been ordered.
(a) Democracy enhances the dignity of individual.
Suggestion: It is discrimination on the basis of social hierarchy. Anti-untouchability laws should be implemented strictly.
(b) There is a challenge of poverty.
Suggestion: Farmers' associations, sectional pressure groups and local MLAs and MPs should put pressure on government to run agricultural insurance and credit policy.
(c) It is a challenge to expansion of democracy.
Suggestion : Government should amend in laws conferring right to encounter operations with law enforcing agency.
What are the conditions under which democracies accommodate social diversities?