PATNA: Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi
on Thursday said that the state government in its budget for fiscal
2012-13 has increased by two and half times the allocation for schedule
caste (SC) and schedule tribe (ST) welfare department to Rs 839.94
crore.
This is 16 per cent of the total budget size, he said while speaking at Babu Jagjivan Ram Jayanti Samaroh organized under auspices of the organization, Babuji Ke Log. He said that the state government is making the scholarship distribution system free of corruption for the benefit of the SCs, STs and extremely backward youths. Modi said that the government is committed to provide three decimal of land to each family of landless mahadalits.
He said that Jagjivan had made all efforts for uplift of Dalits. He garlanded the portrait of Jagjivan. Presiding the function, former Union minister Sanjay Paswan hailed the state government's efforts for development of the Dalit and Mahadalit people.
The Ravidas Vikas Manch also celebrated the birth anniversary of Jagjivan remembering him as a great statesman and freedom fighter. Speaking on the occasion, Ashok Prabhakar, recounted Jagjivan's role as defence minister during Indo-Pak war and liberation of Bangladesh. The BPCC organized a function at Sadaqat Ashram and paid tributes to former deputy prime minister and former Congress president Jagjivan Ram. The party celebrated the occasion as Samata Diwas.
This is 16 per cent of the total budget size, he said while speaking at Babu Jagjivan Ram Jayanti Samaroh organized under auspices of the organization, Babuji Ke Log. He said that the state government is making the scholarship distribution system free of corruption for the benefit of the SCs, STs and extremely backward youths. Modi said that the government is committed to provide three decimal of land to each family of landless mahadalits.
He said that Jagjivan had made all efforts for uplift of Dalits. He garlanded the portrait of Jagjivan. Presiding the function, former Union minister Sanjay Paswan hailed the state government's efforts for development of the Dalit and Mahadalit people.
The Ravidas Vikas Manch also celebrated the birth anniversary of Jagjivan remembering him as a great statesman and freedom fighter. Speaking on the occasion, Ashok Prabhakar, recounted Jagjivan's role as defence minister during Indo-Pak war and liberation of Bangladesh. The BPCC organized a function at Sadaqat Ashram and paid tributes to former deputy prime minister and former Congress president Jagjivan Ram. The party celebrated the occasion as Samata Diwas.
Early life and education
Jagjivan Ram was born at Chandwa near Arrah in Bihar, to a family of five siblings, elder brother Sant Lal, and three sisters. His father Sobhi Ram was with British Indian Army, posted at Peshawar,
but later resigned due to some differences and bought some farming land
in his native village Chandwa, and settled there. He also became a Mahant of Shiv Narayani sect, skilled in calligraphy he illustrated many book of the sect and distributed locally.
Young Jagjivan started going a local school in January 1914, but shortly afterward his father died prematurely, leaving him and his mother Vasanti Devi to economic hardships. He joined Aggrawal Middle School in Arrah in 1920, where the medium of instruction was English for the first time, and joined Arrah Town School in 1922, it was here that is faced caste discrimination for the first time, yet remained unfazed. An often cited incident occurred in the school, there was this tradition of having two water pots in the school, one for Hindus and another for Muslims, so when Jagjivan drank water from the Hindu pot, while being from an untouchable class, the matter was reported to the Principal, who placed a third pot for "untouchables" in the school, but this pot was broken by him twice, eventually the Principal decided against placing the third pot.
A turning point in his life came in 1925, when Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya visited his school, and impressed by his welcome address, invited him to join Banaras Hindu University.
Jagjivan Ram passed his matriculation in the first division and joined the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1927, where he was awarded the Birla scholarship, and passed his Inter Science Examination; while at BHU he organised the scheduled castes to protest against social discrimination.
As a Dalit student, he would not be served meals in his hostel, denied haircut by local barbers, a Dalit barber would arrive from Ghazipur from occasionally to trim his hair, eventually he left BHU and pursued graduation from Calcutta University. In 2007, the BHU set up a Babu Jagjivan Ram Chair in its faculty of social sciences to study caste discrimination and economic backwardness.
He received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Calcutta in 1931, here again he organized conferences to draw the attention towards issues of discrimination, and also participated in the anti-untouchability movement started by Mahatma Gandhi.
Young Jagjivan started going a local school in January 1914, but shortly afterward his father died prematurely, leaving him and his mother Vasanti Devi to economic hardships. He joined Aggrawal Middle School in Arrah in 1920, where the medium of instruction was English for the first time, and joined Arrah Town School in 1922, it was here that is faced caste discrimination for the first time, yet remained unfazed. An often cited incident occurred in the school, there was this tradition of having two water pots in the school, one for Hindus and another for Muslims, so when Jagjivan drank water from the Hindu pot, while being from an untouchable class, the matter was reported to the Principal, who placed a third pot for "untouchables" in the school, but this pot was broken by him twice, eventually the Principal decided against placing the third pot.
A turning point in his life came in 1925, when Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya visited his school, and impressed by his welcome address, invited him to join Banaras Hindu University.
Jagjivan Ram passed his matriculation in the first division and joined the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1927, where he was awarded the Birla scholarship, and passed his Inter Science Examination; while at BHU he organised the scheduled castes to protest against social discrimination.
As a Dalit student, he would not be served meals in his hostel, denied haircut by local barbers, a Dalit barber would arrive from Ghazipur from occasionally to trim his hair, eventually he left BHU and pursued graduation from Calcutta University. In 2007, the BHU set up a Babu Jagjivan Ram Chair in its faculty of social sciences to study caste discrimination and economic backwardness.
He received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Calcutta in 1931, here again he organized conferences to draw the attention towards issues of discrimination, and also participated in the anti-untouchability movement started by Mahatma Gandhi.
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