Babu
Jagjivan Ram in 1950
|
|
In
office
24 March 1977 – 28 July 1979 Serving with Charan Singh |
|
Prime Minister
|
Morarji Desai
|
Preceded by
|
Morarji Desai
|
Succeeded by
|
Yashwantrao Chavan
|
In
office
24 March 1977 – 1 July 1978 |
|
Prime Minister
|
Morarji Desai
|
Preceded by
|
Sardar Swaran Singh
|
Succeeded by
|
Sardar Swaran Singh
|
In
office
27 June 1970 – 10 October 1974 |
|
Prime Minister
|
Indira Gandhi
|
Preceded by
|
Bansi Lal
|
Succeeded by
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Chidambaram Subramaniam
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Personal
details
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Born
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5 April 1908
Chandwa, Bhojpur District, Bihar, British Raj (now India) |
Died
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6 July 1986 (aged 78)
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Political party
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Indian National
Congress-Jagjivan (1981–1986)
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Other political
affiliations |
Indian National
Congress (Before
1977)
Congress for Democracy (1977) Janata Party (1977–1981) |
Children
|
Suresh
Meira |
Alma mater
|
Banaras Hindu
University
University of Calcutta |
Babu
Jagjivan Ram (Hindi: बाबू जगजीवन राम) (5 April 1908 – 6 July 1986), known popularly as Babuji, was a freedom fighter and a
social reformer hailing from the scheduled castes of Bihar in India. He was
from the Chamar caste and was a leader for his community. He was instrumental
in foundation of the 'All-India Depressed Classes League', an organisation
dedicated to attaining equality for untouchables, in 1935 and was elected to Bihar
Legislative Assembly in 1937, that is when he organised, rural labour movement.
Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation was established on
14th March, 2008 as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Social Justice
& Empowerment, in the memory of Babu Jagjivan Ramji, to propagate his
ideology and philosophy of life and missions, his vision to create a casteless
and classless society, eradication of untouchabality and continuous struggle
for achieving social justice for the dalit, downtrodden and weaker sections who
do not get ample opportunities to stand up and lead a dignified life in the
society. It is a Registered Society under the Societies Registration Act 1860
with one time corpus grant of Rs. 50 crores. It is located at Jeevan Prakash
Building, 9th Floor, K.G. Marg, New Delhi-110001.The main Aims and Objects of
the Foundation are as under:-
- To propagate the ideology and philosophy of life and mission of Babu Jagjivan Ram.
- To collect, acquire, maintain and preserve the personal papers and other historical material pertaining to Babu Jagjivan Ram.
- To encourage and promote study and research on his life and work.
- To publish, sell and distribute books, papers, pamphlets and information in pursuance of the objectives of the Foundation.
- To acquire, preserve and protect places connected with him and raise memorials.
- To propagate his ideals and memory through print and electronic media by promoting artists belonging to dalit community who are not getting ample opportunity to come up.
- To encourage and promote dalit artists through specially designed development schemes for their social, cultural, educational and economic development.
- To implement special schemes for removal of untouchability and caste based prejudices in the society.
- To undertake and implement various, schemes and programmes assigned from time to time by the Central and State Govts.
- To organize birth and death anniversaries and other commemorative events of the life of Babu Jagjivan Ram.
B.J.R. Institute of Law Bundelkhand University
B.J.R. Institute of Law Bundelkhand University
B.J.R. Institute of Law Bundelkhand University
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