“It’s a priceless heritage in the region of social harmony and equality and must be declared and preserved as monument of National importance,” NMA chairman Tarun Vijay said.
New Delhi: The National Monuments Authority has recommended two sites associated with Dr B R Ambedkar, the Father of Indian Constitution and a great social reformer, to be declared as Monuments of National importance.
NMA has recommended that Sankalp Bhumi Banyan tree campus in Vadodara, where Dr Ambedkar had taken a resolve to eradicate untouchability on 23th September, 1917, be declared as Monument of National Importance. This place is more than hundred years old and a witness to the beginning of social respect revolution heralded by Dr Ambedkar.
NMA has also recommended a place in Satara (Maharashtra) where Ambedkar received his primary education in Pratap Rao Bhosle High School to be declared as monument of National importance.
The school register still shows with pride a child student Bhim Rao’s signatures in Marathi. The school, now under Zila Parishad, is in a dilapidated condition. These recommendations have been placed before MoS Culture Arjun Ram Meghwal by the National Monuments Authority.
“It’s a priceless heritage in the region of social harmony and equality and must be declared and preserved as monument of National importance,” NMA chairman Tarun Vijay said.
Upon India’s independence on 15 August 1947, the new prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru invited Ambedkar to serve as the Dominion of India’s Law Minister; two weeks later, he was appointed Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution for the future Republic of India. The Constitution was adopted on 26 November 1949 by the Constituent Assembly. Since 1948, Ambedkar had diabetes. He remained in bed from June to October in 1954 due to medication side-effects and poor eyesight. His health worsened during 1955. Three days after completing his final manuscript The Buddha and His Dhamma, Ambedkar died in his sleep on 6 December 1956 at his home in Delhi.
