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{{Short description|Indian social activist, gandhian, educationist and academic (1913–2010)}}
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| birth_date = 22 January 1913
| birth_place = [[Jaunpur district|Jaunpur]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], [[British India]]
| death_date = 20 May 2010 (aged 97)
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| occupation = Social activist<br>[[Gandhian]]<br>Educationist
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]]
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'''Acharya Ramamurti''' (22 January 1913 – 20 May 2010) was an Indian social activist, [[gandhian]], educationist and academic.<ref name="Acharya Ramamurti (1913-2010)">{{cite journal | url=http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~gandhi/mss/MSS_Newsletter_June_%207_2010.pdf | title=Acharya Ramamurti (1913-2010) | author=Rama Singh | journal=Mahila Shanti Sena | date=June 2010}}</ref> He headed the review committee of 1990, popularly known as ''Ramamurti Review Committee'', for evaluating the progress of the [[National Policy on Education#1986|National Policy on Education of 1986]].<ref name="Ramamurti Report on Education in Retrospect">{{cite journal | jstor=41498419 | title=Ramamurti Report on Education in Retrospect | author=Amrik Singh | journal=Economic and Political Weekly | date=June 1991 | volume=26 | issue=26 | pages=1605–1609}}</ref><ref name="Ramamurti Review Committee (1990) ">{{cite web | url=http://navyapaulc.weebly.com/educational.html | title=Ramamurti Review Committee (1990) | publisher=Navya Paul C | date=2012 | access-date=2 November 2015}}</ref> He was the director of ''Shrambharati'', a [[non governmental organization]], engaged in community development, adhering to [[Gandhiji|Gandhian]] ideals.<ref name="Gender, Religion and Education in a Chaotic Postmodern World">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyeuYckzZ2kC&q=Shrambharati&pg=PA76 | title=Gender, Religion and Education in a Chaotic Postmodern World | publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |author1=Zehavit Gross |author2=Lynn Davies |author3=Al-Khansaa Diab | year=2012 | pages=76 of 392 | isbn=9789400752702}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]] in 1999.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Ramamurti was born on 22 January 1913 in a small village in [[Jaunpur district]] by name, Ardhpur, in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]] in a financially healthy family of farmers.<ref name="Acharya Ramamurti (1913-2010)" /> After securing a master's degree (MA) in History from [[Lucknow University]], he started his career, in 1954, as a lecturer at [[List of educational institutions in Varanasi#U P Board Schools|Government Queens College]], [[Varanasi]] but resigned from the job on 10 May 1954 to pursue an active career in social service<ref name="Total Culture of Peace">{{cite web | url=http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/gandhi/lectures/2003-Ramamaurti.htm | title=Total Culture of Peace | publisher=Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada | date=2003 | access-date=2 November 2015}}</ref> and joined ''Shrambharati'', a social service community founded by [[Dhirendra Mazumdar]], a gandhian and [[Sarvodaya]] leader.<ref name="Gender, Religion and Education in a Chaotic Postmodern World" /> When the [[Bhoodan movement]] was launched by [[Vinoba Bhave]] in 1951,<ref name="Bhoodan-Gramdan Movement - 50 Years : A Review">{{cite web | url=http://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/bhoodan.htm | title=Bhoodan-Gramdan Movement - 50 Years : A Review | publisher=Sarvodaya | date=2015 | access-date=2 November 2015}}</ref> Ramamurti became associated with it, travelling from village to village, propagating the ideals and collecting land.<ref name="Acharya Ramamurti (1913-2010)" /> After the death of Mazumdar, he became the Director of the organization and is credited with transforming it into one of the largest peace movement organizations in the country.<ref name="Total Culture of Peace" />
Main aspects of Reviewed Policy by Ram Murti Recview committee 1990.
In the early Seventies, he started working closely with [[Jayaprakash Narayan]] and was involved with the [[Bihar Movement|Bihar Andolan]]. After the success of [[Bihar Movement#Total Revolution|Total Revolution]], he turned his attention to education and organized the ''Earn and Learn'' movement in Khadigram and thirty neighboring villages.<ref name="Acharya Ramamurti (1913-2010)" /> In 1989, when [[V. P. Singh]] became the [[Prime Minister of India]],<ref name="V.P. Singh ">{{cite web | url=http://global.britannica.com/biography/V-P-Singh | title=V.P. Singh | publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica | date=2015 | access-date=2 November 2015}}</ref> his involvement with national level politics increased and he was appointed as the chairman of the Review Committee to appraise the implementation of the [[National Policy on Education|National Education Policy of 1980]], on 7 May 1990.<ref name="Ramamurti Review Committee (1990) " /> The committee, known as the ''Ramamurti Review Committee'', submitted the report<ref name="Report of the Committee for Review of National Policy on Education 1986 ">{{cite web | url=http://www.teindia.nic.in/files/reports/ccr/ramamurti-committee-report.pdf | title=Report of the Committee for Review of National Policy on Education 1986 | publisher=Government of India | work=Full Text | date=26 December 1990 | access-date=2 November 2015 | pages=366 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122100718/http://www.teindia.nic.in/files/reports/ccr/ramamurti-committee-report.pdf | archive-date=22 January 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> on 9 January 1991 and recommended several changes which included the introduction of a common school system, promotion of women education, ''Early childhood care and education'' (ECCE), and Socially Useful Productive Work (SUPW), among others.<ref name="Ramamurti Report on Education in Retrospect" /><ref name="National Policy on Education">{{cite web | url=http://www.ncert.nic.in/oth_anoun/npe86.pdf | title=National Policy on Education | publisher=NCERT | date=2015 | access-date=2 November 2015}}</ref> He received the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] in 1998<ref name="Acharya Ramamurti JB Award">{{cite web | url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/1998/constructive-work/acharya-ramamurti | title=Acharya Ramamurti JB Award | publisher=Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation | date=2015 | access-date=December 5, 2015}}</ref> and the Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 1999.<ref name="Padma Awards" />
Acharya Ram murti was the chairman of the Revised national Policy committee.
Ramamurti was one of the founders of ''Mahila Shanti Sena'' (Women's Peace Corps), the women's wing of [[Shanti Sena]], which was established in February 2002, at [[Vaishali district|Vaishali]], [[Bihar]], at a conference jointly organized by Shrambharati and [[McMaster University]].<ref name="Acharya Ramamurti (1913-2010)" /> Besides writing several articles on Gandhian social and educational ideals,<ref name="Shiksha, Sanskriti aur Samaj (Education, Culture and Society)">{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaHysSvSw1QC&q=Shrambharati+history&pg=PA256 | title=Shiksha, Sanskriti aur Samaj (Education, Culture and Society) | author=A. Ramamurti | journal=Shrambharati | year=1990| isbn=9788183243322 }}</ref> he also delivered several lectures, in India and abroad; the one at [[McMaster University]], Canada, titled ''Total Culture of Peace'', is one among them. The lecture was the 2003 edition of the series, ''Mahatma Gandhi Lecture on Nonviolence''.<ref name="Total Culture of Peace" /> Towards the fag end of his life, he was involved with the functioning of [[Mahila Shanti Sena]] but also held positions such as that of the director of the Institute for Gandhian Studies, Patna,<ref name="Total Culture of Peace" /> and as the President of the ''Servseva Sangh''.<ref name="Acharya Ramamurti (1913-2010)" /> He died on 20 May 2010, in Patna, Bihar, at the age of 97.<ref name="Acharya Ramamurti (1913-2010)" />

== See also ==
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* [[National Policy on Education]]
* [[Bhoodan movement]]
* [[Shanti Sena]]
* [[Jayaprakash Narayan]]
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{{portal|India}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.teindia.nic.in/files/reports/ccr/ramamurti-committee-report.pdf | title=Report of the Committee for Review of National Policy on Education 1986 | publisher=Government of India | work=Full Text | date=26 December 1990 | access-date=2 November 2015 | pages=366 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122100718/http://www.teindia.nic.in/files/reports/ccr/ramamurti-committee-report.pdf | archive-date=22 January 2016 | url-status=dead }}

{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Social Work}}
{{Jamnalal Bajaj Award winners}}

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[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]

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