Lok Sabha Question No. 1292 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-07-28
Subject: Establishing Dr. Ambedkar Chair
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: VIRENDER KASHYAP

**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA**

**MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT**

**LOK SABHA**

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#### UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1292

#### TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.07.2015

**1292. ESTABLISHING DR. AMBEDKAR CHAIR**

**SHRI VIRENDER KASHYAP:**

**Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be pleased to state:**

(a) whether Dr. Ambedkar Chairs have been set-up by the Government in some Universities on the recommendations of Dr. Ambedkar Birth Centenary Celebration Committee;

(b) if so, the details thereof; and

(c) whether the Government has any plan to set-up more chairs during the 125th Birth Anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and if so, the details thereof?

**ANSWER**

MINISTER OF STATE FOR Social Justice and Empowerment

**(SHRI VIJAY SAMPLA)**

(a) & (b) The details of Dr. Ambedkar Chairs set up by the Dr. Ambedkar Foundation are Annexed.

(c) A proposal to consider setting up of additional Dr. Ambedkar Chairs is, inter-alia, included in the 125 th Birth Year Celebration Programme of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.

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**Annexure**

**List of Dr. Ambedkar Chairs in different Universities/ Institutions by the Dr. Ambedkar Foundation**

|   **S.No.** | **Name of the University/Institute where the Chair is set up**                       |   **Year of Inception** | **Thrust Area of the Chair**             |
|-------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|          1. | Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.                                             |                    1993 | Legal studies                            |
|          2. | Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur (A.P.)                                          |                    1993 | Social Policy & Social Action            |
|          3. | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi                                               |                    1995 | Sociology                                |
|          4. | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar National Institute of Social Sciences (BANISS), MHOW, M.P     |                    1993 | Education, Social Change and Development |
|          5. | National Institute of Social Work and Social Sciences (NISWASS), Bhubaneswar, Orissa |                    1994 | Social Work                              |
|          6. | University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal                                         |                    1995 | Anthropology                             |
|          7. | The Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, Maharashtra              |                    1995 | Dalit Movement & History                 |
|          8. | University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu                                            |                    1995 | Economics                                |
|          9. | Vikram University, Ujjain (M.P.)                                                     |                    2002 | Ambedkarism & Social Change              |
|         10. | Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi                          |                    2004 | Social Justice                           |