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B.R. Ambedkar’s bequest extends acold beyond the Constitution, erstwhile Supreme Court justice B. Sudershan Reddy said connected Wednesday.
"His contributions to the state are expansive, ranging from the fields of economics, banking and fiscal policy, women’s rights, cosmopolitan education, the Dalit Buddhist question and the anti-caste movement... We seldom perceive astir these things. But the clip has travel for each that and to talk much astir his unexplored contributions,” the retired justice said.
Delivering the inaugural code of BRiiDGE (B.R. Ambedkar International Institute for Dialogue connected Governance and Equity), an inaugural of the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU) here, Mr.Reddy noted that simply remembering Ambedkar does not service the purpose.
“But however are we going to cognize much astir his contributions that volition power the destiny of this nation? BRiiDGE should give much clip to devise programmes truthful that we person a dialog connected unexplored contributions specified arsenic the hierarchy and annihilation of caste, rationalism, and Buddhishm,” helium said.
BRAOU Vice-Chancellor Ghanta Chakrapani said, “BRiiDGE is an ideological, intelligence and law span to region the gaps betwixt radical and society. It volition travel the educate-engage model.”
The thought to acceptable up specified an institute was discussed with Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy successful January past twelvemonth erstwhile helium visited the field to unveil the Ambedkar statue and inspected different facilities. A connection was submitted to the State authorities 2 months aboriginal and pursuing that, a ₹100-crore assistance was allocated from the Scheduled Castes Sub Plan fund, helium explained. However, the funds are yet to beryllium released.
The institute differs from Dr. Ambedkar International Centre (DAIC), nether the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, inaugurated successful 2017 successful New Delhi. BRiiDGE proposes to execute a parallel engagement with society, importune connected law morality, and arsenic continuous engagement, peculiarly with the youth. The institute plans to promote younker from disadvantaged sections to prosecute higher acquisition successful institutes specified arsenic the London School of Economics (LSE) and Columbia University, some alma maters of Ambedkar, Mr. Chakrapani explained.
The ceremonial besides featured inaugural lecture by Anupama Rao, prof of History and convenor, Ambedkar Initiative, Columbia University. Ms. Rao virtually presented her reflections connected ‘Ambedkar successful his clip and ours’.
Speakers astatine the lawsuit specified arsenic past prof astatine University of Hyderabad Bhangya Bhukya observed that Ambedkar is lone being celebrated but should besides beryllium critically understood.
For Mallepalli Laxmaiah of Centre for Dalit Studies, overmuch has been discussed and written astir Ambedkar’s contributions. “There is an antagonism against SC, ST and OBCs these days, overmuch similar the presumption connected caste strategy held by Gandhi successful 1930s. The clip present is to instrumentality Ambedkar’s ideas done action-oriented probe and policies,” helium said.
The ceremonial was attended by erstwhile Chief Secretary Kaki Madhava Rao, Vice-Chancellor of Osmania University Kumar Molugaram, ADGP G. Sudheer Babu, Telangana Council of Higher Education’s erstwhile president R. Limbadri, erstwhile Vice-Chancellors V.S. Prasad, Mallesh Sankasala and D. Ravinder among others.
