Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Topic: Framing the Indian Constitution · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 4 "Framing the Constitution"
Meaning
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was a follower of Gandhi and one of the fifteen women members of the Constituent Assembly. She was elected from the Central Provinces and Berar. She worked for women's rights and public health. After Independence she became India's first Health Minister and held the post from 1947 to 1957.
Example
As Health Minister, she led the effort to set up the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. It was created in 1956 as India's top medical college and hospital.
Don't confuse with
- Sucheta Kripalani: another woman member of the Assembly, but she is remembered as India's first woman Chief Minister (Uttar Pradesh, 1963). She was not a Health Minister.
Related concepts
- Rajendra Prasad
- B.R. Ambedkar
- Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly
- K.M. Munshi
- Alladi Krishnaswamy Aiyar
- B.N. Rau
- S.N. Mukherjee
- Women in the Constituent Assembly
- Vijayalakshmi Pandit
- Sucheta Kripalani