Ambedkar's Vision in 21st Century

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The issues of providing good and relevant education and reasonable employment avenues to the youth is a problem every country grapples with, whether they are developed, developing or under-developed nations. In India the problem becomes slightly more complex due to the existence of a social system that discriminates people where certain classes face discrimination in their attempts to access education and secure employment.
As the one educated in the earlier part of the 20th century, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was one of those chosen to have been able to acquire high quality education first in Bombay and then in New York and London. Even today an city dweller would not have that opportunity and access to go through the kind of education Dr. B. R. Ambedkar received. Probably that was one of the reasons that Dr. Ambedkar ensured the Clause 9 of the Poona Pact signed on 24th September, 1932.

Dr. Lalit Kumar Singh, Head of the Department, Department of Sociology, Government Degree College Gonda, Aligarh have received his master degree and Doctoral degree from sociology. He has been teaching for 4 years. He has attended 10 national and 2 international seminars. He has published more than 12 papers till now. His area of specialization is in NGO's, caste politics in India etc. Dr. Singh's present book is the result of his teaching experience and great effort. Till now he has written as many as 3 books and some more are in pipeline.

Dr.B.R.Ambedkar's Vision on Education and Employment and its relevance in the current Century is as relevant as in before independence.
The issues of providing good and relevant education and reasonable employment avenues to the youth is a problem every country grapples with, whether they are developed, developing or under-developed nations. In India the problem becomes slightly more complex due to the existence of a social system that discriminates people where certain classes face discrimination in their attempts to access education and secure employment.
As the one educated in the earlier part of the 20th century, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was one of those chosen to have been able to acquire high quality education first in Bombay and then in New York and London. Even today an average city dweller would not have that opportunity and access to go through the kind of education Dr. B. R. Ambedkar received. Probably that was one of the reasons that Dr. Ambedkar ensured the Clause 9 of the Poona Pact signed on 24th September, 1932.
The journey to the Poona Pact came through Dr. Ambedkar's statements before the Southborough Committee in 1919, the Indian Statutory Commission in 1928, the Round Table Conference in 1930 and later on fully developed into a concrete radical system in his proposals in 1947 in the form of a Memorandum titled 'States and Minorities' and flowered into one of the world's best provisions for equal opportunity and access in the Constitution of India, 1950.
This book may serve the need of general reader who likes to read on more on Ambedkar and his vision; his work and thought. Students doing studies on dalit literature may find it useful.