| Founder(s) | Kanshiram, D.K. Khaparde |
|---|---|
| Type | Social organisation |
| Location | India |
| Website | http://www.bamcef.org/ |
All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees' Federation, popularly known as BAMCEF, is an organization of educated employees from scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, Other Backward Classes,and converted minority communities in India. In 1973, Kanshiram and D.K. Khaparde, along with their colleagues, established BAMCEF, which was relaunched on December 6, 1978 on the death anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. BAMCEF celebrated its silver jubilee in the year 2008. BAMCEF's mission is to change the traditional Indian social system based on castes and varnas.
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As an employee in the Defence Research and Development Laboratory in Pune, Kanshiram realized that the formation of the dalit bureaucracy was important if dalits' interests were to be served. He set about forming the federation, through which he worked his way in the higher echelons of bureaucracy by identifying a few zealous officers and, through them, influencing the lower staff. The motto of the organization was Pay back to society, to inspire the dalit bureaucrats to do their bit for the dalit masses. In this way a continuous supply of brains, money, and talent was ensured. Kanshiram did not want to make the BAMCEF merely an employees' union, instead he wanted it to become the organisation of educated bahujan employees, "the think tank, talent bank, and financial bank of the bahujan samaj".[1] BAMCEF undertook collection of funds for the purpose of supporting agitations and training; Kanshi Ram appointed state-level conveners as well as mandal conveners to act as links between state and district levels.[2]
Knowing the limitations of BAMCEF, Kanshiram formed Dalith Soshit Samaj Sangharsh samithi (DS4) in 1981. In 1984, Kanshiram dissolved the DS4 and formed a completely political wing Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). This caused major strains in BAMCEF Ranks.[3] In early 1986 a major split took place. Kanshiram announced at that time that he was no longer willing to work for any organisation other than BSP.[4] Without Kanshi Ram, D.K. Khaparde registered BAMCEF in the 1987 in consultation with other colleagues.[5] Since then, one group of BAMCEF, which was associated with Kanshi Ram, was converted into a shadow organization to help BSP in electoral mobilization for the party. The group of employees which had parted ways from Kanshi Ram got itself registered and started mobilizing Dalits independently without the help of any political clout.[6]
BAMCEF is a cadre based organization and is engaged in missionary works. BAMCEF is determined to work for specific objectives rather than to work in a field where many other organizations are engaged. Fear of enemy is one of the tools to built organization. However such an organization does not last longer. BAMCEF, therefore, shall never use such cheap way to built the organization. BAMCEF shall bring people in its fold through motivation and shall conduct its affairs in a most disciplined manner. It will ensure that every cadre work under discipline.
Here we must understand that building organization is not BAMCEF's objective. It is a tool to achieve some specific objective. We must therefore create an organizational structure to meet the requirement of the objective. Functioning without a structure or wrong structure is bound to create chaos in the organization and even may destroy our mission. Due care has therefore been taken while creating a structure which would help to achieve the objective. Structure is also made to meet the geographical requirement. It is kept simple with clarity and result oriented. It is ensured that every cadre is faithful to the organization and dedicated to the objective. Higher responsibilities or posts are assigned to committed, competent, experienced cadre by observing democratic, norms. While framing the constitution of the organization care has been taken that any office bearer who does not discharge his responsibility with missionary zeal shall be thrown out of the organization howsoever great person he may be. As far as the working of the organization is concerned, it is structured at three different levels viz. Centre, State and District. At each levels General Body as well as an Executive Committee is constituted. The responsibility to spread the organization to the Taluka (Tahsil) as well as the village level is assigned to the District Executive Committee.
National General Body
The General Body (G. B.) is the supreme most body of BAMCEF. It includes members from various districts who are either elected or unanimously nominated. The President and Secretary of all the Tonsil (Taluka) Units are members of the National General Body. Apart from this, for every 100 members of the District Unit or part thereof, a representatives are sent to the National G. B.. Besides these, all the members of the C.E.C. and all the members of the State Executive committee are also members of the National G. B. The meeting of the National G. B. is held once in a year. The National G. B. takes unanimous decisions regarding the functioning of the organization. It directs the C.E.C. to prepare plans and programmes in the light of these decisions. If any extraordinary situation arises in the organization, a special G. B. meeting can be called to overcome the situation. The decisions taken by the National General Body in this regard are final.
Central Executive Committee of BAMCEF
The election and constitution of the C.E.C. is done unanimously by the National General Body. The C.E.C. so constituted has the tenure of two years. The members of C.E.C. are elected from the members of the National G. B. The C.E.C. elects and appoints the various office bearers from among its members. These include appointment of National President, National Vice-President, National General Secretary, and National Treasurer. Since the C.E.C. is basically a national body, there is no concept of State representation in it. Being the members of C:E.C, they are responsible for the growth and development of all the States, irrespective of the State to which they belong. This helps in developing a homogenous character of the organization.
Decision Making
CEC is the apex body for functioning of ‘BAMCEF. In order to call the meeting of CEC, its agenda has to be circulated to all the members, one month prior to the meeting. The members of CEC invite suggestions on the agenda from the State Units. The State Executive and the various District Units in the State can send their suggestions. After taking into consideration the various suggestions and discussing the issues from various angles, CEC takes its decisions. The decisions of the CEC are binding on all the members. The responsibility to comply with the decisions and their implementation lies with CEC, State Executive, District Units and the lower units within the districts. The State Executive, the District Units or the lower units do not have the power to change the decisions of the CEC. This power lies only with the National General Body and it is possible only by calling the meeting of the National General Body.
Primary Membership of BAMCEF
A person of the Mulnivasi Bahujan Samaj, who is an employee of the Central Government, State Government, Local Bodies, Public Undertaking, Private Institute or even a self employee, can become a primary member of BAMCEF by depositing an annual membership fee of Rupee One only with an Annual subscription of rupees twenty four only i.e. total of rupees twenty five only. The membership is valid for one year only. The membership has to be renewed every year.
BAMCEF derives an inspiration from the life and mission of our forefathers viz. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Rashtrapita Jyotirao Phuley, Rashtranirmata Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj and Jana Nayak Birsa Munda. The mission of BAMCEF is the mission of these forefathers. BAMCEF is working for the objective for which our fore-fathers have shed their life. The objective of our fore-fathers was to uproot Brahminism the spirit of inequality and to establish and preserve a new social system based on humanity and the principles of Equality, Liberty, Fraternity and Justice. Rashtrapita Jyotirao Phuley and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar were not interested in the changes in the existing social system but they wanted to change the system itself and preserve human dignity of the individual. ‘Self help and self respect’ was the slogan of their movement. The change of social system is the long term objective of BAMCEF. BAMCEF has decided to achieve this objective in stages and therefore designed some short term objectives. These are dealt with separately in this booklet. In order to achieve the objective, BAMCEF is determined to strengthen the sense of Social responsibility towards their brethren amongst Mulnivasi Bahujan Samaj.
BAMCEF does not believe in the welfare of few individuals but wanted to raise the level of Mulnivasi Bahujan Samaj as a whole. It is worth while to mention here that once Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar wrote to Mr. Dadasaheb Gaikwad that there are two views of looking at the oppressed and exploited society. First is to develop individuals merit as some social thinkers are of the view that Individuals misdeeds and behavior is responsible for his oppression, exploitation and poverty. Such social thinkers then undertake to work for the personality development such as de-addiction from alcohol, health care programs, blood donation camp, co-operative movements, establish libraries and other programs to develop virtues in the individual person. Another view is to raise the social level of the oppressed and exploited society as a whole. The circumstances and limitation surrounding individual in which he leads his life, is responsible for the sorrow and poverty of the individual.
Dr. Ambedkar stated that if both the views are compared and analyzed carefully, it is the second view which appears to be more correct and justifiable. In the first case the status of few individuals .nay improve in the society but status of society as a whole shall not be raised and our objective is not to improve the status of few individuals but to raise the status of the entire society. BAMCEF is committed to the view taken by Dr. Ambedkar and does not want to use its energy for the improvement of few individuals.
Our fore-fathers Rashtrapita Jyotirao Phuley, Perilya E. V. Ramasamy and Rashtranirmata Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar have set the objective of their movement as social revolution. They have tirelessly fought to achieve this objective and certainly succeeded to some extent but still objective is not realized. Therefore BAMCEF has dedicated itself to fulfill the objective set forth by our fore-fathers. This is the reason why BAMCEF is not engaged in the welfare activities and charitable work. However it may use these activities as a tool to accomplish objective if need be. Due care shall be taken while undertaking such activities whether they will be helpful in achieving the objectives.
The objective of social revolution is the most gigantic and tedious task. Our forefathers have made efforts for thousands of years and shed their life to achieve this objective but still it is not accomplished. Therefore it is mission for BAMCEF. Lakhs of people are required to be engaged to accomplish this mission. BAMCEF is dedicated to the mission of social revolution i.e. to bring about structural changes in the social system.