India News | NMA Recommends 2 Sites Connected to Ambedkar to Be Declared as Monuments of National Importance

New Delhi, Jul 8 (PTI) The National Monuments Authority (NMA) has recommended two sites associated with B R Ambedkar in Gujarat and Maharashtra to be declared as monuments of national importance.

The sites are the Sankalp Bhumi banyan tree campus in Vadodara in Gujarat where Ambedkar had taken a resolve to eradicate untouchability and Pratap Rao Bhosle High School in Satara in Maharashtra where he had received his primary education, according to a Culture Ministry statement.

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The site in Vadodara is more than hundred years old and a witness to the beginning of social respect revolution heralded by Ambedkar, who is considered as the architect of India's Constitution.

The school in Satara, now under Zila Parishad, is in a dilapidated condition, it said.

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These recommendations have been placed before Minister of State for Culture Arjun Ram Meghwal by the National Monuments Authority, according to the statement.

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