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09/08/23 06:29 AM IST

MERI MAATI MERA DESH CAMPAIGN

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  • Nation -wide “Meri Mati Mera Desh” Campaign will be launched tomorrow on 9th August 2023, to pay tribute to the ‘Veers’ who laid down their lives for the country.
About the campaign
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced ‘Meri Mati Mera Desh’ campaign during the 103rd edition of his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on 30 July, which aims to honour the bravehearts who lost their lives for the country.
  • Under the campaign, activities will be organised across India in memory of “our immortal martyrs.
  • Special inscriptions will be installed in lakhs of village panchayats of the country in memory of these personalities.
  • The government has also planned ‘Amrit Kalash Yatra’ for this campaign, wherein soil in urns and saplings from villages across the country will be brought to Delhi.
  • This ‘Amrit Kalash Yatra’, carrying the soil in 7,500 ‘kalash’ from villages and various corners of the country, will reach Delhi.
  • This yatra will also carry plants from various parts of the country. From 7,500 kalash, soil and plants that will come, an ‘Amrit Vatika’ will be built close to the National War Memorial.
  • Amrit Vatika, a special garden, will become a “grand symbol” of ‘Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’, which intends to increase interaction and endorse “mutual understanding” between people of different states and Union Territories through “pairing”.
  • A special plaque – ‘Shilaphalakam’ – engraved with the names of local freedom fighters, defence personnel, the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and police personnel, who sacrificed their lives for the country, will be put up in cities and villages across the country. These plaques, which will be installed near water bodies or near panchayat offices and schools.
  • In villages, youth volunteers will collect soil from each panchayat or village and take it to the block level. Then, a special urn containing the soil from each block will be transported to Delhi.
  • In cities, the urns will be carried from smaller local bodies to larger municipalities and towns and then brought to the National Capital.

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