About NMA

• National Monuments Authority (NMA) under the Ministry of Culture has been setup as per provisions of The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains AMASR (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2010.
• Several functions have been assigned to the NMA for the protection and preservation of monuments and sites through management of the prohibited and regulated area around the centrally protected monuments. 
• One amongst these responsibilities of NMA is also to consider grant of permissions to applicants for construction related activity in the prohibited and regulated area.
• National Monuments Authority has been mandated to categorize all the protected monuments and protected areas declared as of National importance .

Why in News?

• The National Monuments Authority  has recommended two sites associated with Dr Ambedkar to be declared as Monuments of National importance. 
• NMA  has recommended that Sankalp Bhumi Banyan tree campus in Vadodara, where Dr. Ambedkar had taken a resolve to eradicate untouchability on 23th September, 1917 be declared as Monument of National Importance. This place is more than hundred years old and a witness to the beginning of social respect revolution heralded by Dr. Ambedkar.
• NMA has also recommended  a place in Satara (Maharashtra) where Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar received his primary education in Pratap Rao Bhosle High School to be declared as monument of National importance.

Reference

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1840172