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Karnataka’s Department of Social Welfare, plans to establish two unique museums in Bengaluru - The Interactive Constitution Museum and the Maharishi Valmiki and Ramayana Museum.
These two museums will be set up in Nagadasanahalli near Yelahanka in Bengaluru, at a cost of Rs 120 crore and Rs 60 crore respectively. The state government hopes to encourage dialogue between constitution guarantees and rights that govern the Indian republic, and the spirituality and philosophy .
Dr G Parameswara, Deputy Chief Minister said, “It is our duty to understand and honour the Constitution of India and learn the struggles that went into making it. This museum will give every citizen a unique insight into it. At the same time, the Maharishi Valmiki museum will help us appreciate the literary and spiritual heritage of our land.”
The project is being spearheaded by Priyank Kharge, Minister for Social Welfare. He said, “The two museums will be the most befitting monuments to the Father of Indian Constitution Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and Maharshi Valmiki, who immortalised the epic Ramayana and inspired people with great values.”
Constitution Museum
An interactive, cutting edge museum and interpretation centre, the Constitution Museum will exhibit the genesis of our living document and introduce the objective, structure, judiciary and the challenges faced by Dr. B R Ambedkar during the drafting of the Constitution.
The resistance shown during the time of fight for freedom, the constituent assembly debates, and other challenges will be chronicled here.
Kharge stressed on the need to honour the Constitution of India and the need to celebrate the author Babasaheb Ambedkar.
Kharge said the Constitution Museum will also throw light on the various stages and struggles that formed part of the country’s freedom struggle and the framing of the Constitution. It will also have a well-equipped and most modern library with compilation of the debates in the Constituent Assembly and their Kannada translations along with a vast collection of books and recordings of the speeches of Dr Ambedkar.
The museum will provide an invigorating environment and have facilities to accommodate academicians and scholars from across the country and abroad to study the Indian Constitution.
The Maharishi Valmiki and Ramayana Museum
The departments will also construct a state-of-the-art museum dedicated to sage-poet Valmiki, and the greatest epic of India -Ramayana. This will exhibit the life of one of the greatest sages Adi Kavi Maharshi Valmiki and his epic Ramayana.
Alongside this, a Tribal Museum will also come up at Nagadasanahalli that will highlight the life, traditions, art and culture of the various tribes in Karnataka.
Additionally, information on freedom fighters from Halagali Beda community including Jadaga, Veera Sindhura Lakshmana, as well as their achievements will be displayed at the museum.
The project intends to preserve, protect and present the tribal communities for the generations to come, the minister said.
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