Mumbai: The State government has directed its schools and junior colleges to observe November 7 as Students’ Day, to mark Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s entry into school education 117 years ago, in 1900.
A Government Resolution (GR) issued by the State School Education and Sports Department on October 27 has described the Dalit icon’s enrolment in school as the dawn of a new era. It was because of the Constitution given by Dr. Ambedkar to the nation that the values of freedom, equality, brotherhood and rule of law took root in the society, said the GR.
The GR directed schools and junior colleges to organise essay writing, elocution competitions, poetry-reading and other such events to mark the occasion.