16 June #TheDayInHistory
Dr #BabaSahebAmbedkar established the ‘Bombay State Inferior Village Watandar Association’ under his own chairmanship OnThisDay in 1956. He was the “first legislator in India to introduce a bill for the abolition of the serfdom of agricultural tenants”.
Dr #BabaSahebAmbedkar established the ‘Bombay State Inferior Village Watandar Association’ under his own chairmanship OnThisDay in 1956. He was the “first legislator in India to introduce a bill for the abolition of the serfdom of agricultural tenants”.
Dr #BabaSahebAmbedkar wanted to solve the problem of Mahar Watans by all legislative and constitutional means. He introduced a bill in Poona session of Bombay Legislative Council in 1937 (17 September) to abolish the Mahar Watan for which he had been agitating since 1927.
Clarifying the objectives of the Association that he formed on 16 June 1956, Dr #BabaSahebAmbedkar stated that if the Government did not solve the problem amicably, then expressed his desire to prosecute the Government.
Dr #BabaSahebAmbedkar said that Government accepted the principle of “land to tiller” but was not ready to include Government lands under the jurisdiction of the Act. He believed that the Watan Act and the Watan system were contrary to the provision of the constitution of India
Subsequently, Mahar Watan was abolished under the Bombay Inferior Village Watan Abolition Act 1959..
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