Samata Sainik Dal

Samata Sainik Dal
समता सैनिक दल
Abbreviation SSD
Formation 13 March 1927 (1927-03-13)
Founder Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Type Ambedkarite volunteer,
Legal status Active
Purpose Supporting Prabuddha Bharata
Headquarters Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Coordinates 21°7′41″N 79°4′1″E / 21.12806°N 79.06694°E / 21.12806; 79.06694
Region served
 India
Membership
 3.61 million
Official language
 Hindi
22 Languages of India
National Chairman
 S. Chandraiah
Key people
 Dr. Sanjay Gajbhiye (ALL India General Secretary)
Main organ
 The Buddhist Society of India
Affiliations Scheduled Castes Federation
Volunteers
 Soldiers for social justice and human dignity representative of India’s Depressed class.
Mission "To achieve social equality in India"[1]
Website ssdindia.org
aissd.org
Formerly called
 Samaj Samata Sangh

Samata Sainik Dal (Army of Soldiers for Equality[2] or Party of the Fighters for Equality[3]) abbreviated as SSD is a social organisation founded by B. R. Ambedkar on 25 November 1926 with the objective of safeguarding the rights of all oppressed sections of Indian society.[4][5]

Training

  1. Samata Sainik Dal training shall consists of physical, intellectual and military type.
  2. The Samata Sanik Dal shall organise training Camps, Schools, Clubs, Classes, Lectures, Debates, Libraries etc. and such other forms of activities as it may consider expedient from time to time.
  3. Branches of All India Samata Sanik Dal shall function in all India Provinces and branches shall also be set up, wherever possible in the Indian States.
  4. Each Provincial branch will organise its District Committees and each District Committee in its own will organise Town and Village Committees.
  5. The General Body of Samata Sainik Dal in a Town or a Village shall select, according to their ranks, a Town or Village Committee of 5 members, one President, two Secretaries and also select delegates from among themselves to the District Conference in the following manner :-
  6. For 1 to 25 members – One Delegate
  7. For 25 to 50 members – Two Delegates and so on.
  8. The District Conference shall select a District Committee of 10 members, one President and two Secretaries as also delegates to the Provincial Conference from amongst themselves according to their ranks in the following manner :-
  9. For 5 delegates to the District Conference and one delegate to Provincial Conference. For District delegates numbering above five and up to ten, two delegates to the Provincial Conference and so on.
  10. The Provincial Conference shall select according to their ranks a Provincial Committee of 20 members, one President, two Secretaries and also delegates to the All India Conference. The number of such delegates to the All India Conference shall not exeed 5% of the total strength of membership in each Province.
  11. The All India Conference of Samata Sainik Dal shall select on All India Council consisting of one President, one Vice-President, one General Secretary, two Joint Secretaries and one member from each Province selected by the All India Central Committee.
  12. All Provincial units affiliated to the All India Samata Sainik Dal shall pay an affiliation fee of Rs. 25 per annum to the All India Samata Sainik Dal as also 5% of their gross annual income.
  13. An All India Conference of Samata Sainik Dal shall be held at least once in every year.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Samta Sainik Dal". Samata Sainik Dal. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Rao, Anupama (2009). The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India. University of California Press. p. 100. ISBN 9780520257610. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
  3. ↑ Jaffrelot, Christophe (2005) [2000]. Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste (Revised ed.). London: C. Hurst & Co. p. 79. ISBN 9781850654490. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
  4. ↑ Krishan, Shri (2005). Political Mobilization And Identity In Western India, 1934-47. SAGE. p. 200. ISBN 9780761933427. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
  5. ↑ "About". Samata Sainik Dal. 8 November 1936. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "Samta Sainik Dal". Samata Sainik Dal. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.

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