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Nation Meri Maati Mera Desh Campaign

UNION HOME MINISTER AMIT SHAH INAUGURATED KALASH YATRA

AMRIT VATIKA WILL BE BUILT FROM THE SOIL

COLLECTED FROM EVERY CORNER OF INDIA

'Meri Maati Mera Desh' campaign has started which is a people-to-people campaign to
remember the heroes' of freedom struggle on the commemoration of 75 years of the
country's independence. This public-led campaign is the concluding ceremony of the
‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ programme. Under the ‘Meri Maati Mera Desh’ celebrations,
the nation is celebrating its various achievements. As part of it, Union Home and
Cooperation Minister Amit Shah launched the Amrit Kalash Yatra from New Delhi on
September 1. Through this we salute 'Vasudha' who gives life and honor our heroes…..

he nationwide “Meri Maati Mera Desh” of the country.
campaign was launched on 9 August 2023 Inaugurating the Amrit Kalash Yatra, Union
Tto pay tribute to the ‘heroes’ who sacrificed Minister Amit Shah said that this is not just a
their lives for the country. Under this campaign, program but an effort to connect oneself with the
the heroes who saved the nation are being future. Amit Shah released the anthem song 'Mitti'
honored and many programs are being organized and flagged off the program by distributing Amrit
at village, panchayat, block, urban local body, Kalash to the people coming from different parts
state and national levels. Amrit Kalash Yatra will of the country.
be organized across the country and under this, Amit Shah said that from 1857 to 1947, when
Amrit Vatika will be built in Delhi by bringing soil in the freedom struggle went on for 90 years, many
seven and a half thousand kalashes from all areas people sacrificed everything in their lives. When

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