GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 13th April. On the occasion of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, organized the two-day conference on April 12 and 13, 2022, in New Delhi.
The Union Home and Co-operation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the conference.
The opening address was delivered by Minister of Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern Region of India (DoNER), G. Kishan Reddy.
Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Culture, Meenakashi Lekhi, Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture were also present on the occasion.
In his address on the occasion, the Union Home Minister Shah said that perhaps after a generation, such a time comes in someone’s destiny that we can celebrate the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. We are all fortunate that in the year of the Amrit Mahotsav, we all have some duty with which we all have been privileged of being associated with.
He said, the nation has had many achievements in the 75 years since Independence and we have been successful in placing India amongst the top nations. We have created many records in all fields with joint efforts, we have been successful in preserving and promoting our history and culture.
In the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had envisioned its national celebration and that it should be a multi-purpose celebration, he added.
Amit Shah said that through the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, our new generation should get information about the sacrifices and resilience of the people who fought for the freedom struggle for 90 years from 1857 to 1947, they should be glorified.
Along with this, the Prime Minister has decided to celebrate the period of 25 years from Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to the Centenary year of independence as Azadi Ka Amrit Kaal.
This next 25 years is a period for collective efforts of 130 crore people of India and to see India at the top of the world, the Prime Minister has called this period as Amrit Kaal. Along with this, he has also decided to celebrate the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav as Sankalp Varsh and has called upon the people of the country that in the year of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, we should personally take some resolution, which will help India.
Gram Panchayats, Parliament and all government departments should work for the country’s progress, as the 25 years of Amrit Kaal is a period to fulfil this resolve for progress.
The Union Home Minister said that On March 12, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi began Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav from Kashi Gandhi Ashram, thereafter more than 25,000 programs have been organized across the country.
He added, in this period, due to the second and third wave of Covid-19, a difficult situation had arisen and many programs had to be done in hybrid mode and due to this public participation could not be as much as it should have been.
But now that the country is coming out of the grip of Covid-19, in this remaining time we should celebrate the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav with public participation, said Shah.
The Home Minister said, during this two-day conference, we have to decide how every village, tehsil, district and state should participate in the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and for this, to create programs and make them successful.
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) is a flagship initiative of the Central and State Governments, which has been launched to commemorate 75 years of India’s independence. The objective of this programme is to recreate and renew the patriotic fervour of the independence movement, to recall the contribution of the freedom fighters and to create a vision for lndia@2047.
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