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ICON OF CHANGE: GANDHIJI AT 150

As part of INTACH’s national outreach ONLINE FELICITATION
programmes for schools across India, CEREMONY FOR NATIONAL
Heritage Education and Communication
Service (HECS) organises various national WINNERS,
level programmes for school children 1ST OCTOBER 2020
that seek to aid their understanding The webinar was organized on the
of heritage in a comprehensive yet eve of Gandhi Jayanti, national
lucid way. For the annual year 2019-20 winner students, along with their
HECS organized an all-India Gandhiji teachers and school principals
at 150: National Essay and Painting attended the online ceremony.
Competition, commemorating the 150th Offi ce bearers of various
chapters of INTACH, conveners
birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
and co – conveners attended
Over 95 INTACH Chapters spread the ceremony. The ceremony was also time and have made an eff ort to learn
across the country, participated in attended by Chairman INTACH, Shri L. K. about Gandhi. She congratulated all the
the competition, and HECS received Gupta and Member Secretary, INTACH winners for the eff orts they have put in the
12000 entries from various chapters. Dr. C. T. Misra our guests of honour.The competition. Speaking about heritage
After a careful review of the essays and Chief Guest for the ceremony was Dr. in our country, she pointed out that the
V. R. Devika, Founder and Managing most interesting intangible heritage that
paintings, 105 regional winners and 10
trustee of The Aseema Trust. India has produced is Mahatma Gandhi.
national winners were selected from this
Through her presentation, she shared
competition. All participating students Dr. V. R. Devika interacted with the
small stories of Gandhi. She emphasized
received a certifi cate commending their students and expressed her pleasure that Gandhi is still speaking to us even
eff orts. that young students have taken out this
after 150 years.
EXTRACTS FROM NATIONAL WINNER ESSAYS AND PAINTINGS

Ankita Lenka, Class IX, Balasore Zilla Allu Gowri Sasaank, Class VIII A, Timpany Kusum Beniwal, Class IX A, Sophia Sen.
School, Balasore School (ICSE), Visakhapatnam Sec. School, Bhilwara (Essay originally in
Hindi)
Gandhiji believed that Khadi industry would In the 21 st century the thoughts of Mahatma
save millions of people from starvation and Gandhi remain as essential as they were in his Gandhiji through his work and writings made
would supplement the earnings of the poor. time. In a world where extremism, radicalism possible the transformation of society. His
And so Gandhiji advocated the use of charkha. and racism are dividing countries as well commentaries on caste, gender, religion were
Gandhiji evolved the idea of village sarvodaya. as societies, Gandhiji’s calls for peace and an attempt towards reforming society. He
He wanted the revival of ancient Indian ahimsa have the power to unite humanity. was a fi rm believer in the fact that the mother
communities with prosperous agriculture, and the motherland were more important
decentralized industry and than heaven. Gandhiji wanted to
small scale co-operative build a society which was equal.
organizations.
B. Neeraja Karpagam, Class IXB,
Mehta Mahek H, Class Sir Sivaswami Kalalaya Sen.Sec.
IX B, Bhavan’s Shri A. School, Chennai (Essay originally
K. Doshi Vidyalaya, in Tamil)
Jamnagar
Gandhiji advocated 7 social sins,
Gandhiji evoked a system of which had to be removed from the
education. He introduced society, as:
a system of education
named Nai-Talim (new Wealth without work,
education) which means Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
education particularly at
Commerce without morality,
primary and secondary
level. It integrated the Science without humanity,
harmonious development Worship without sacrifi ce,
for the personality of Politics without principles.
students.
Sandheep Parida, Class 8, DAV Public School, Irtiqa Shahid, Class 9, Cambridge School,
Pokhariput Bhubaneswar Srinivaspuri, New Delhi

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