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To monitor atrocities perpetrated against Dalits and Adivasis and to ensure speedy justice, a unique web-based
tool Atrocity Tracking and Monitoring (ATM) System has been launched. The initiative falls under the aegis of
the National Coalition for Strengthening SC/ST PoA Act (NCSPOA) by the National Dalit Movement for Justice
(NDMJ).
The Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 was enacted to prevent atrocities against
scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The Act is popularly known as POA, the SC/ST Act, the Prevention of
Atrocities Act, or simply the Atrocities Act.
Crime vs. atrocity
According to the Act, the term atrocity denotes the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane, whereas the