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COVER STORY 75 WEEKS OF AMRIT MAHOTSAV

through Amrit Mahotsav. By connecting
the cleanliness movement with Mahatma
Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, a mass
movement was launched with the goal of
cleaning up the country.
The 75th year of independence was
named Amrit Mahotsav and it has been
organised by forming a special committee.
The youth of the country are being inspired
to write stories of unsung heroes. Tribal
Pride Day was started every year as
Lord Birsa Munda's birth anniversary on
November 15th as Tribal Pride Day. The
125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose was made an occasion. By
remembering the contributions of many
great men, such as Raja Suheldev and
Raja Mahendra Pratap, a new backbone VISION DOCUMENT
of the freedom movement was formed. On 19 February 2021, the Prime Minister asked
The government of India believes that the students of Visva Bharati to prepare a vision
the struggle from 1857 to 1947 should document. By 2047 when India celebrates 100
be rekindled in the minds of the next years of its independence, what will be the 25
generation because history alone cannot biggest goals of Visva Bharati?
provide information to the next generation. 75 BIG INNOVATIONS
Many incidents and characters of heroic
heroes will have to be brought alive on On 23 February 2021, Prime Minister Narendra
his psyche, then he will associate himself Modi asked the students of IIT Kharagpur
with the struggle for freedom. If a child to compile the 75 big innovations, and big
today associates himself with the freedom solutions that have emerged from IIT Kharagpur
struggle, he will devote his entire life to the in the past years, and take them to the country
development of India. Amrit Mahotsav is and the world.
a golden opportunity to connect the new BANKS BREAK THE RECORD OF 75 YEARS
generation of Indians with freedom and Prime Minister Modi said on 12 December 2021
with the country. that India's banking sector should work more
Organizing the Amrit Mahotsav is, in
fact, a roadmap, a resolution to keep the actively than before in achieving the country's
achievements of the last 75 years in front goals. In the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, every
of the world for the next 25 years, so that bank branch, what they have done in 75 years,
when India celebrates its centennial of leaving behind all those records, let us aim to
independence in 2047, it is inspiring to see multiply it by one and a half times, two times.
where we can take India and what India's PLAYERS TO VISIT 75 SCHOOLS
place in the world will be. Amrit Mahotsav Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to
is preparing a pedestal. This festival of 75 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic players to visit
years, on that pedestal, is becoming a firm 75 schools by August 15, 2023, to discuss the
direction to go in, inspiring and instilling need to eat healthy and tasty food to address
the spirit of effort for India's centennial of malnutrition and play with children. Neeraj
independence. Chopra started the campaign for a school tour.

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