Republic Day 2022: The Centre has plans to promote sites associated with Subhas Chandra Bose nationwide.
The Republic Day celebrations will now begin every year from January 23 instead of January 24 to include the birth anniversary of legendary freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose, government sources told NDTV. Subhas Chandra Bose, also called Netaji, was born on 23 January 1897.
"This is in line with Narendra Modi government's focus on celebrating/commemorating important aspects of our history and culture," the sources added.
The government had earlier started the celebration of Subhas Chandra Bose's birth anniversary as Parakram Divas.
Other such days, observance of which have become an annual affair, are August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, October 31 as National Unity Day (birth anniversary of Sardar Patel), November 15 as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas (Birsa Munda's birth anniversary), November 26 as Constitution Day and December 26 as Veer Baal Divas (a tribute to the four sons of Guru Gobind Singh), sources added.
The Centre has drawn up plans to promote sites across the country associated with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Last year, in October, news agency PTI had reported that the Tourism Ministry was planning curated tours as part of events to commemorate the anniversary of the formation of the Azad Hind government, the provisional government that was announced by Bose on October 21, 1943.
"Identification of such sites has been done and will include multiple routes. We have prepared curated itineraries that cover destinations connected to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The itineraries will be given to tour operators to promote sites related to Netaji," an official was quoted as saying by PTI.