human rights education & ambedkar studies

Praxis Research and Studies

Research and Studies would range from critique and reconstruction of theory to developing new frameworks for identification and analysis of information, both in quantitative and qualitative terms. The Department has undertaken various research programmes on Human Rights Situations of Weaker Sections

Social Action and Extension

• Health and Sanitation related Welfare Activities
• Legal Awareness on Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955
• Legal Awareness on Prevention of Atrocities Rules 1995
• Awareness about the Government Scheme for SCs & STs

Advocacy and Campaign

• National Seminar on Ambedkar's Ideology : Response from Orissa
• Seminar on Remembering contributions of Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar on Making of Modern India
• Seminar on Ambedkar's thoughts on Social Reconstruction
  
  

Alliances and NETWORKING

During the year, the Centre engaged itself in a modest way in providing advocacy and consultancy to academic institutions and policy level organizations (both public and voluntary) on the issues of development concerning the weaker sections of Orissa. A number of voluntary as well as Government organisations in collaboration with NISWASS in general and the Department in particular undertake development activities conducive to the upliftment of the depressed and oppressed Communities in the State.

CENTER FOR AMBEDKAR STUDIES

The Centre for Ambedkar Studies is set up with the support of UGC for training and raising a group of committed social scientists / young persons who can be trained as to become the instrument of social development and agent of social change.
The Centre provides a unique forum for the scientific and systematic explorations in the area of ‘Ambedkar Studies’. The proposed programmes and activities under the Centre have been outlined below.

TEACHING AND TRAINING

As part of its teaching and training programme, the Centre offers three types of courses: A basic foundation course on Development and Ambedkar Philosophy; Specialized short courses on Ambedkar’s Thought of Social Reconstruction both at under-graduate as well as post-graduate level and Papers on Ambedkar’s Philosophy and Development of weaker sections in Social Work curricula at the graduate and post graduate levels.

Praxis RESEARCH and studies

Scholars engaged in these programmes will offer new interpretation of the diverse traditions and ideologies in the backdrop of socio-economic constructs of the identity of the marginalised sections’. The following subjects form part of the vital areas of studies undertaken by the Centre:

• Education and consciousness raising.
• Social and cultural movements for emancipation of the downtrodden.
• Untouchability, atrocities, violence etc.
• Religion, caste systems and methods of functioning.
• Policy and programme implementation including Reservation Policy.
• Human Rights, welfare rights and social obligations.
• Ethnicity and minority.
• Land reforms, Distribution, Poverty and Destitution.
• Dalit literature Arts, Music and Cultural diversity.
• Ambedkar’s  ideas of Buddhism and Hinduism.
  
  

Social action and EXTENSION

The major focus of activities at the Centre for Ambedkar Studies is communicating insights through building linkages as part of sharing-learning process.

ADVOCACY and campaign

Seminar on Ambedkar's Thoughts on Social Reconstruction: A seminar was organised on 14th April, 2006 on the above theme in order to commemorate the 115th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Dr. Ambedkar. The noted economist Prof. Basudev Sahoo was the distinguished speaker on this occasion.