Question

Highlight any five special measures taken by the government of india for the upliftment of backward classes ..

Answer 1

Being dissatisfied with the social status of the SCs, Ambedkar launched a drive in 1956 for their mass conversion to Buddhism. In 1957, he organ­ised the political wing of the SCs, known as Republican Party. There have been many instances of conversion of the SCs to Christianity too. Since after the conversion, the SCs ceased to be entitled for benefits of­fered by the government, the Republican Party launched an agitation in 1964 for the restoration of these privileges to neo-Buddhist SCs.

Gandhiji had taken up the cause of Harijan welfare in 1924. The uplift of the Harijans was an important item in the Bardoli programme of constructive work drawn up in 1922. The Harijan Sevak Sangh was organised in 1932 to work for the removal of the social disabilities of the Harijans.