CONG LAUNCHES AN EPLATFORM ON LIFE, WORKS OF AMBEDKAR

The Congress launched a digital platform on the life and works of Dalit icon and main architect of the Indian Constitution Dr BR Ambedkar on his 126th birth anniversary on Friday.

The website ‘Quest For Equity’ (www.questfore quity.org) contains pictures of his achievements and a copy of the original Constitution.

It also has more than 300 pic tures of Ambedkar, 97 scans of his correspondence and the ful transcripts of the Constituent Assembly debates.

In addition, it hosts the most comprehensive and longitudina data set, broadly categorised in different sections on access of SCS and STS in public services health, education and other fields.

Soon after the launch, Con gress vice-president Rahul Gan dhi tweeted: “@Incindia is proud to launch today a platform designed to deepen our under standing of Babsaheb’s thoughts.”

The party claimed that the website has the most compre hensive and longitudinal data set, broadly categorised into access to public services, dis crimination, economic data education, employment in public and private sectors, health and household data on the SC and ST communities.

“The website also contains reports of scholars working on inequality, discrimination and poverty,” said K Raju, chairman of the SC department of the AICC.