Prime Minister Narendra Modi will nearly inaugurate the mannequin of a proposed memorial devoted to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Andaman and Nicobar Islands on January 23 to commemorate the liberty fighter’s 126th beginning anniversary, in keeping with an official assertion.
The proposed memorial might be arrange on Ross Island, which has been renamed after Netaji in 2018. It can have a museum, cable automotive ropeway, laser-and-sound present, guided heritage path by historic buildings and a theme-based kids’s amusement park, moreover a restro lounge.
The digital inauguration of the mannequin might be adopted by the PM’s speech to the nation, after which he’ll announce the naming of 21 uninhabited islands within the archipelago after Param Veer Chakra awardees, the assertion issued by the Union territory administration stated.
The occasion might be live-screened throughout a perform on the auditorium of Dr B R Ambedkar Institute of Technology in Port Blair.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who will arrive in Port Blair on January 23, would be the chief visitor of the perform.
He will hoist the nationwide flag, which might be adopted by a public speech at Netaji Stadium in Port Blair, the identical spot the place the Indian National Army (INA) commander-in-chief had hoisted the tricolour on December 30, 1943. The stadium was then often called Gymkhana Ground.
A sequence of programmes might be held in Port Blair, together with the screening of a movie on the beginning anniversary celebrations of the legendary freedom fighter and a dance ballet on Netaji’s life choreographed by eminent dancer Tanusree Shankar.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been underneath the Japanese occupation and it was formally handed over to the Azad Hind authorities on December 29, 1943.
This might be Shah’s second go to to Port Blair since 2021, when he had arrived right here to rejoice ‘Azaadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, a sequence of occasions organised by the Centre to commemorate the seventy fifth anniversary of India’s Independence.
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