A brief on Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation

• A national Foundation viz. "Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation" has been established in the memory of Babu Jagjivan Ram and to propagate his ideology, philosophy of his life and mission and services rendered for the sake of the underprivileged. and the country
• The Foundation shall function as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. It is registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 with a one-time corpus grant of Rs. 50 crore. It will be located in the National Capital Region of Delhi (Jeevan Prakash Building, 9th floor, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi).
• The main objectives of the Foundation are as follows:

1. To propagate the ideology and philosophy of life and mission of Babu Jagjivan Ram;
2. To collect, acquire, maintain and preserve the personal papers and other historical material pertaining to Babu Jagjivan Ram;
3. To encourage and promote study and research on his life and work;
4. To publish, sell and distribute books, papers, pamphlets and information in pursuance of the objectives the Foundation;
5. To acquire, preserve and protect places connected with him and raise memorials;
6. To propagate his ideals and memory through print and electronic media by promoting artists belonging to dalit community who are not getting ample opportunity to come up;
7. To encourage and promote dalit artists through specially designed development schemes for their social, cultural, educational and economic development;
8. To implement special schemes for removal of untouchability and caste-based prejudices in the society;
9. To undertake and implement various schemes and programmes assigned from time to time by the Central and State Govts;
10. To organize birth and death anniversaries and other commemorative events of the life of Babu Jagjivan Ram;
11. To undertake all such activities as are not specially mentioned in the aims and objectives listed above, but which promote these objectives
12. The entire expenditure would be borne from the XI Plan outlay of this Ministry.
13. This is a plan scheme under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, which involves a projected expenditure of Rs.54 crore in the 11th Five-Year- Period. The proposed provisions include both recurring and non-recurring expenses. An amount of Rs. 50 crore is proposed by way of one time grant to create a Corpus Fund. However, a grant of Rs. 4 crore would also be provided to kick-start the activities and to meet the initial establishment costs.