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ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY THE HON’BLE PRESIDENT OF INDIA, SHRI RAM NATH KOVIND, ON THE EVE OF INDIA’S 72ND INDEPENDENCE DAY
Dear Fellow Citizens
My greetings to you lot equally nosotros consummate 71 years equally an independent nation. Tomorrow nosotros volition commemorate our 72nd Independence Day. For every Indian, whether living at habitation or anywhere else inwards the world, August fifteen is sacred. It is marked on our calendars equally a celebration of our sovereignty. We unfurl our national flag alongside slap-up joy in addition to enthusiasm inwards workplaces, municipalities, panchayats, colleges, schools, homes in addition to neighborhoods. Our Tricolor is a symbol of our national pride. It is a constant reminder of our striving in addition to our self-belief. It is a twenty-four hours to await dorsum alongside satisfaction in addition to gratitude for what nosotros remove hold been able to accomplish due to the efforts of successive generations of our elders. And it is a twenty-four hours to renew our resolve to fill upward the gaps that even so remain inwards our nation edifice projection – gaps that our talented immature people volition no dubiety fill.
Freedom came to our soil on the Midnight of August 14-15, 1947. It was the outcome of years in addition to decades in addition to centuries of sacrifice in addition to valour on the business office of our ancestors in addition to our revered liberty fighters. These were men in addition to women of rare courage in addition to foresight. They came from all regions of the country, all sections of society, all communities in addition to all social in addition to economical groups. They could easily remove hold compromised in addition to settled for some personal benefit, but they did not. Their commitment to Bharat – to a free, sovereign, plural in addition to egalitarian Bharat – was absolute. It was my privilege to honor these liberty fighters on the anniversary of ‘Quit Bharat Day’ on ninth August inwards Rashtrapati Bhavan.
We are fortunate that nosotros remove hold inherited the legacy of such remarkable patriots. They left us alongside a costless India, but they too left us alongside unfinished tasks for the evolution of our society, for the empowerment of the proverbial final person, for their liberation from poverty, in addition to social in addition to economical inequality. Every breath inwards our collective life equally a nation is a tribute to our liberty fighters – in addition to a commitment to accomplish whatever is even so unaccomplished.
If nosotros define liberty inwards narrow, political terms, in addition to so August 15, 1947, marks a closure. It was the twenty-four hours the political struggle against an royal might culminated inwards success in addition to inwards our Independence Day. But liberty is a broader concept. It is non fixed in addition to finite. Freedom is a constant in addition to relentless endeavour. Even decades later 1947, each 1 of us tin contribute inwards the mode of a liberty fighter. We tin produce so if nosotros expand the frontiers of liberty in addition to of chance for our swain Indians in addition to our dear India.
Our farmers grow nutrient for tens of thousands of swain citizens whom they remove hold non individually met in addition to volition never meet. They are upholding our liberty past times ensuring nutrient safety in addition to nutrition for our children. As nosotros assist our farmers past times providing access to engineering in addition to other facilities for enhanced productivity in addition to enhanced incomes, nosotros go upward to the principles of our liberty struggle.
Our Armed Forces stand upward guard valiantly on our borders, upward inwards the fell climate of the mountains or nether the blazing sun, or inwards the skies or at sea. They are upholding our liberty past times ensuring safety from external threats. As nosotros give them amend weapons in addition to equipment, create render chains for such equipment inwards Bharat itself, or ensure welfare benefits for our soldiers, nosotros go upward to the principles of our liberty struggle.
Our constabulary in addition to paramilitary forces remove hold on a diverseness of challenges. In battling terrorism, inwards fighting criminal offense in addition to law in addition to monastic state disturbances, or fifty-fifty inwards helping ordinary citizens past times asset their hands patch they cross a flooded street. In doing this, they are upholding our civic freedom. As nosotros improve their professional person in addition to personal conditions, nosotros go upward to the principles of our liberty struggle.
Women remove hold a special operate inwards our society. The expansion of liberty inwards our soil inwards many senses amounts to the expansion of liberty for women inwards our country. This is truthful whether nosotros reckon them equally mothers, sisters, daughters or simply equally women who are entitled to a life of their choosing – in addition to deserving of the chance in addition to the safety to fulfil their potential. They could produce this equally sheet-anchors of our families or equally absolutely critical entrants to our institutions of higher learning in addition to our workforce. The selection is theirs; equally a nation in addition to equally a social club nosotros must ensure that they remove hold the correct in addition to the might to exercise that choice.
As nosotros remove hold this procedure further, past times facilitating credit for women-run enterprises in addition to start-ups or past times easier availability of LPG inwards millions of kitchens in addition to millions of homes, nosotros go upward to the principles of our liberty struggle.
Our immature people, both boys in addition to girls, correspond the hope in addition to optimism of India. Our liberty struggle saw the active participation of the immature in addition to the old, but its unloose energy was provided past times the young. They chose unlike modes or activism inwards their bespeak for liberty – but their resolve in addition to their idealism, their passion for a costless India, for a amend India, for a to a greater extent than equal India, was nonnegotiable.
Today, equally nosotros ignite the burn downward inside our youth, past times edifice capacities for skilling in addition to scholarship; for technology, engineering in addition to entrepreneurship; for inventiveness in addition to crafts; for playing music in addition to producing mobile apps, for excelling inwards sports, nosotros are harnessing the unlimited human working capital missive of the alphabet of our youth. In doing so, nosotros go upward to the principles of our liberty struggle.
I remove hold given only a few examples; at that topographic point could go many more. The reality is that every Indian who does his or her chore alongside sincerity in addition to commitment, who contributes to social club past times beingness truthful to a professional person ethic, go it the doctor’s ethic, the nurse’s ethic, the teacher’s ethic, the populace servant’s ethic, the manufacturing flora worker’s ethic, the business-person’s ethic, the ethic of those who remove hold to aid for ageing parents who brought them upward alongside love in addition to sacrifice – each of these in addition to many others are inwards their ain agency upholding the values of freedom. They are providing the fruits in addition to goods in addition to services of liberty to swain citizens. Every citizen of Bharat who does his or her duty sincerely, fulfils a personal in addition to professional person obligation in addition to keeps to a given give-and-take is, at a cardinal level, upholding the principles of our liberty struggle. I would scrap that every Indian who does non bound the queue in addition to respects the civic infinite in addition to rights of those ahead inwards the describe too lives upward to the principles of our liberty struggle. It’s a real minor gesture. Let us attempt in addition to abide past times it.
Dear Fellow Citizens
You may wonder if what I remove hold said so far would non remove hold held truthful inwards the years gone by, perchance 10 or 20 years agone or fifty-fifty earlier. To some extent, it sure enough would. Even so, nosotros are at a juncture inwards our history that is real unlike from whatsoever menses nosotros remove hold so far experienced. We are at the cusp of achieving many of our long-awaited goals. Universal access to electricity, the elimination of opened upward defecation, the elimination of homelessness, the real elimination of extreme poverty is achievable in addition to attainable. We are at a pivotal moment. Let contentious issues in addition to extraneous debates non distract us.
After 4 years, nosotros volition go mark the 75th anniversary of Independence. In less than thirty years, our people volition celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bharat equally a costless nation. The decisions nosotros remove hold today, the foundations nosotros lay today, the projects nosotros undertake today, the social in addition to economical investments nosotros brand today – whether for the immediate time to come or for the medium term – volition create upward one's remove heed where nosotros stand. The stride of alter in addition to evolution inwards our soil is rapid in addition to appreciable. And equally per our civilisational traditions, it is driven past times our people, past times civil social club in addition to past times a partnership betwixt citizen in addition to government. Its focus, over again inwards keeping alongside the essence of Indian thought, is on a amend life for the less fortunate.
I volition give you lot exactly 1 example. The Gram Swaraj Abhiyan is taking 7 flagship programmes to the real doorstep of the poorest in addition to the most deprived amidst our swain citizens. These services include access to electricity, access to the formal banking system, access to welfare in addition to insurance programmes, in addition to access to immunisation inwards hitherto hard-to-reach areas. The Gram Swaraj Abhiyan has been extended to 117 Aspirational Districts where, 7 decades later Independence, nosotros even so remove hold stark gaps inwards the evolution narrative.
Not surprisingly at that topographic point is a pregnant overlap betwixt the populations of these districts in addition to historically weaker communities, such equally Scheduled Castes in addition to Scheduled Tribes. As such, nosotros remove hold an chance to get upward the character of life for those of our swain citizens who remove hold unfortunately remained at the bottom of the pyramid. The Gram Swaraj Abhiyan is non beingness carried out past times regime alone. It is a collaboration of populace agencies in addition to community groups, alongside selfless citizens who are keen to share, to empathize in addition to to give back.
Dear Fellow Citizens
Independence Day is ever special, but this twelvemonth at that topographic point is an odd significance attached to it. In a few weeks, on sec October, nosotros volition laid out the commemoration of the 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhiji did non exactly Pb our liberty struggle. He was in addition to even so is our moral compass. In my capacity equally the President of India, I remove hold been fortunate to remove hold travelled some the world, peculiarly to a few countries of Africa. Everywhere, across continents, Gandhiji is mentioned, cherished in addition to remembered equally an icon for all humanity. He is the embodiment of India.
It is non ever uncomplicated to understand Gandhiji. He refused to go restricted inwards his Definition of politics in addition to political activism, or fifty-fifty of freedom. When Gandhiji in addition to his married adult woman Kasturba, travelled to Champaran inwards Bihar for the indigo farmers’ agitation, they devoted a considerable business office of their fourth dimension to educating local people, peculiarly women in addition to children, equally good equally teaching them nearly hygiene in addition to health. Here, in addition to on other occasions, Gandhiji personally led the drive for swachhta or cleanliness. He linked the removal of dirt to an human activity of self-discipline in addition to of promoting physical in addition to mental health.
Many were puzzled at that time. What does all this remove hold to produce alongside freedom? For Gandhiji, they were the centre-piece of the bespeak for freedom. This was a struggle, according to him, non exactly for political might but for empowering the poorest of the poor, educating the uneducated, ensuring the correct to a dignified life in addition to a viable livelihood for every village, for every neighbourhood, for every identify unit of measurement – in addition to for every individual.
Gandhiji spoke of swadeshi alongside an uncommon zeal. To him this was a pride inwards promoting Indian inventiveness in addition to an Indian sensibility. Nevertheless, he was go to intellectual currents from the balance of the world. He invited these to enrich our learning. To him, Indian civilization was defined past times opened upward windows in addition to non closed doors. This was his concept of swadeshi in addition to it is even so relevant to us equally nosotros engage alongside the basis – whether for our economy, our health, pedagogy in addition to social aspirations, or our policy choices.
Perhaps Gandhiji’s most noble mantra was to indicate out that the might of ahinsa is far greater than the might of hinsa. The might to rest your manus is far greater than the might to strike alongside your manus in addition to hinsa has no identify inwards the society. The weapon of ahinsa was the most effective weapon Gandhiji gave us. Like his other teachings, it was rooted inwards the ancient wisdom of Bharat in addition to yet has a resonance inwards the 21st century in addition to inwards our daily lives.
This Independence Day, so unopen to the 150th anniversary commemoration of Gandhiji, permit each of us accommodate his ideas in addition to maxims, inwards whatever mode nosotros tin inwards our everyday piece of job in addition to conduct. I tin mean value of no amend agency to celebrate our freedom. I tin mean value of no amend agency to celebrate Indianness.
And this Indianness is non for us alone. It is business office of what our soil in addition to our civilization convey to the global stage. In the spirit of Gandhiji in addition to the spirit of India, nosotros believe inwards the age-old ideal of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam or the “World is 1 Family”. This is why nosotros demonstrate our concern for entire humanity past times providing assistance to many African countries, taking initiatives on the number of climate change, contributing to UN Peacekeeping Operations inwards unlike parts of the world, helping neighbouring countries affected past times natural disasters, rescuing people from other countries along alongside our ain people, trapped inwards a conflict zone. In the spirit of Gandhiji in addition to the spirit of India, nosotros portion the practise of yoga for wellness in addition to well-being, in addition to using engineering for development. We are Gandhiji’s children. We dream for all humanity, fifty-fifty when nosotros walk alone.
Dear Fellow Citizens
In my engagements alongside students in addition to academy authorities all over India, I remove hold urged students to pass a few days – perchance 4 or v days inwards a twelvemonth – inwards a village. Undertaken equally business office of what may go termed “University Social Responsibility”, this volition aid students understand our country. It volition allow them to let on in addition to participate inwards social welfare programmes in addition to reckon how they are making an impact. It volition go of produce goodness to the private educatee in addition to to the village, equally good equally to the country. It volition too invoke the fervour of our liberty struggle, in addition to the identification of every citizen alongside the national mission.
I am gratified past times the idealism in addition to the passion of our immature people. There is a spirit to accomplish something for oneself, for one’s family, for wider social club in addition to for our country. This is the most moral pedagogy nosotros tin wishing for. The outcome of pedagogy is non only a grade or a diploma, but the commitment to aid improve the life of some other inwards a agency that is sustainable. This is empathy in addition to fraternity inwards action. This is the Indian spirit. This is India, because Bharat belongs to the people of Bharat – non exactly to the Government.
Together nosotros tin aid every citizen inwards our country. Together nosotros tin conserve our forests in addition to natural heritage, nosotros tin safeguard our monuments for time to come generations, nosotros tin renew our rural in addition to urban habitats. Together, nosotros tin eliminate poverty, illiteracy in addition to inequality. We tin in addition to nosotros must produce this together. The regime has a leading operate but non the sole role. Let us utilization the government’s programmes in addition to projects to farther our ain efforts. Let us brand that feel of ownership our motivation.
With those words, I 1 time over again wishing you lot in addition to your families all the best for Independence Day in addition to best wishes for a brilliant future.
Thank you
Jai Hind!
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