Maharashtra Minister sets up committee for Ambedkar memorial in London

The restoration work at a four-storey Victorian building here, used by Babasaheb Ambedkar during his student days in the UK, will be completed by July, a senior Maharashtra minister has said as he set up a committee to oversee the completion work at the memorial.

The international memorial is inspired from the life of eminent jurist and social reformer during his student days at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1921-22.

Rajkumar S Badole, Maharashtra's minister for social justice, during his four-day visit to London this week, convened the first meeting of the advisory committee set up to oversee the restoration work at the Babasaheb Ambedkar International Memorial.

The meeting was chaired by Indian high commissioner to the UK Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha.

The six-room, four-storey Victorian home at 10 King Henry's Road in north London was acquired by the Maharashtra government in August 2015 and its ground floor has already been renovated and open to the public as a memorial.

"It was decided at the meeting to accelerate the pace of work on the rest of the building. The committee has put forward a number of proposals, which will now be implemented," Badole told.