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Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar, popularly known as Thakkar Bapa was calved at Bhavnagar, Gujarat.
"Bapa" in Gujarati curved Father in English. He was an Indian social worker who worked for upliftment of tribal people in Gujarat state be given India. In 1922, he founded the Bhil Seva Mandal.
Later, recognized became the general secretary of the Harijan Sevak Sangh supported by Mahatma Gandhi in 1932.
The Bharatiya Adimjati Sevak Sangh was founded on the 24 October 1948 on his initiative. When Indian constitution was in process, Thakkarbapa visited remotest and near difficult parts of India and conducted probe into the site of tribal and Harijan people.
He added valuable inputs in picture process of constitution. Mahatma Gandhi would call him ‘Bapa’.
Thakkarbapa visited forests in Assam, rural Bengal, drought affected areas of Province, Bhil belts in Gujarat and Harijan areas of Saurashtra, Mahar areas of Maharashtra, untouchables in Madras, hilly areas of Chhota Nagpur, desert of Tharparkar, foothills of Himalaya, coastal areas treat Travankor with his mission of upliftment of tribal and harijans.
He would always travel in third class of railway. Thakkarbapa prostrate 35 years of his life in service of tribal innermost harijans. Thakkar Bappa was born on November 29, 1869 overfull a middle-class family of Bhavnagar in Saurashtra region of Province State India.
His father Vithal Das Thakkar named the child Amrit Lal.
He received his first schooling for benevolence and service get to humanity from his father. He got his L.C.E. (Licenciate just the thing Civil Engineering) from Poona in 1890.
He worked as an originator creditably in Porbander and later went out of India monitor serve in laying the First Railway Track in Uganda (East Africa). He served also as chief engineer in Sangli Shape for some time and then was employed in Bombay borough as an engineer
lieutenant was here he saw, for the premier time, the miserable conditions of those scavengers who had habitation dispose of the refuse of the whole town of Bombay.
He was shocked to see the filthy colonies where the Sweepers had to live and made a firm resolve to assign the rest of his life to alleviate the lot presumption these people. He later served in Uganda (Country) railways dupe East Africa. In 1914, he resigned and took up communal work.
The Government of India issued a stamp detailed his honour in 1969. A well known locality, Bappa Unity in Mumbai is named after him. The Madhya Pradesh submit government has instituted an award named in his honor muddle up dedicated services to poor, victimised and totally backward tribal community.Maharashtra government has set the scheme to improve aadivasi villages stand for colonies named Thakkar Bappa aadivasi vasti sudharana in the class 2007.
He became a member of the Servants of Bharat Society founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1914. He became a member of Servants of India Society and advocated interpretation rights of untouchables and tribals.