Every movement carries a memory of the moment it became necessary. Ours is not a story of ambition, but of dignity withdrawn and dignity reclaimed - the lived experience of officers who gave decades of faithful service, only to find that the fellowship they trusted had quietly drawn a line through their names

What follows is the record exactly as it was felt and set down by those who lived it. We preserve their words, unaltered, because the truth of how it happened matters more than any retelling could

Chapter One

The Catalyst

For decades there had been no difference - only shared work, shared struggle, and a shared faith in one another. Then a single judgement gave a name to a discrimination that had been waiting, unspoken, beneath the surface. What had bound a community together was suddenly used to set it apart

"In the state of Andhra Pradesh after general elections during May, 2024 the new Government was formed with TDP and its alliance of parties. When the governance of Andhra Pradesh was going with normal standards, the Honourable Apex Court of India delivered the verdict on classification of SC castes in the month of August, 2024."

"This discovered the hidden agenda of our brethren all these decades, as all of us have gathered and proceeded all these decades together without having any sort of difference. Having boosted with the judgement, the thought of discrimination has been uncovered and started humiliating the Mala officers even in open forums."

Chapter Two

The Flashpoint in Visakhapatnam

There is a particular kind of pain in being humiliated in the very room meant to honour your service. On a routine day, in an open forum, that pain became impossible to ignore - and out of it came not bitterness, but resolve. A handful of officers chose to turn injury into organisation, and a quiet decision in a Joint Director's chamber became the seed of everything that followed

"An event, in routine manner, was to be conducted to inaugurate Dairy of SC/ST Gazetted Officers on 24.01.2025 at Visakhapatnam. During the meeting, a lot of humiliation was shown by discriminating the Officers belonging to MALA Caste only."

"This indecent incident was noticed and discussed with Dr. Y. Praveen Kumar, DMHO (Retired) former President and one of the founders of SC/ST Gazetted Officers Association, Kurnool. During the discussions, an idea has been proposed by Sri Polakati Ramakrishna, DAO(W) to form a separate group with MALA Gazetted Officers to avoid humiliation, disrespect etc."

"Since the intention of idea was good for the MALA Caste, the other delegates including Sri B. Rathna Prasad, AE and Sri H.D. Eranna, Dy.EE. have immediately gathered in the chambers of Smt. Nirmala, Joint Director, Treasury Department. After deliberate discussions with regard to humiliation, discrimination etc., an unanimous decision was taken to form a Group with only MALA GAZETTED OFFICERS."

Chapter Three

The Ideological Foundation

A movement built on grievance alone burns out. To endure, it had to be anchored in something larger than the wound that started it. The officers turned to the conscience that has guided generations before them - not as a slogan, but as a working philosophy for how a just society should be ordered

Chapter Four

The Imperative Need

Conviction without action is only sentiment. Having named the wrong and grounded itself in principle, the State Body refused to let the moment pass into quiet endurance. The decision was unambiguous: not to merely survive, but to rebuild - to realise what was lost and re-innovate what comes next

"Keeping the above in view, trusting the value of democracy (collective responsibility) and with due respect to follow the footprints or OUR GOD Dr. BR Ambedkar, the issues concerning the MALA Caste officers across the state that have been brought to the notice of the STATE BODY have been discussed by the State Body of MALGOA..."

"...it was felt that there IS AN IMPERATIVE NEED TO REALIZE, RENOVATE, REVAMP AND REFURBISH."

Realise and Re-innovate - the strategic mandate born of that imperative

Born into the Mahar community and made to feel the daily indignities of untouchability, Dr. Ambedkar rose to become one of the most learned figures of his age and the foremost champion of social justice in modern India

Early Life & Education

From Exclusion to Excellence

Bhimrao was the fourteenth and last child of Ramji Maloji Sakpal, a subedar in the British Indian Army, and Bhimabai. Despite the barriers placed before children of his community, he excelled academically - studying at Elphinstone College in Bombay, then earning postgraduate degrees from Columbia University in New York and a doctorate in economics, alongside study at the London School of Economics and qualification as a barrister at Gray's Inn, London

The Reformer

The Fight Against Caste

Through the 1920s and 1930s, Dr. Ambedkar led landmark movements for the dignity of the oppressed - the Mahad Satyagraha of 1927 asserting the right to draw water from a public tank, and the Kalaram Temple entry movement. He founded journals such as Mooknayak and Bahishkrit Bharat to give voice to the voiceless, and in 1936 published his powerful treatise Annihilation of Caste

"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."

"Be Educated, Be Organised, and Be Agitated."

Nation Builder

Father of the Indian Constitution

On 29 August 1947 Dr. Ambedkar was appointed Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly, and he steered the drafting of the Constitution of India through years of debate. He served as independent India's first Minister of Law and Justice, and championed the rights of women, workers, and the marginalised - including the Hindu Code Bill reforms

The Final Chapter

The Turn to Buddhism

On 14 October 1956, at Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur, Dr. Ambedkar embraced Buddhism along with hundreds of thousands of followers, founding the modern Navayana Buddhist movement. He passed away in New Delhi weeks later, on 6 December 1956 - a day now observed as Mahaparinirvan Diwas

His constitutional ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity are the founding principles of our Association