Union Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturdayinaugurated a five-day exhibition-cum-seminar on ‘New India- We resolve to make’ here to commemorate the 75th year of the Quit India Movement and the forthcoming 75th year of Independence in 2022.
The programme is being organised by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs in association with the Mahanadi Coalfield limited (MCl) and the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP).
Among others, MCl CMD AK Jha, Directors JP Singh, lN Mishra and OP Singh and Parliamentary Affairs Deputy Secretary RC Mohanty were present.
The Minister administered six pledges on vision New India. He also felicitated young chess wizard Saina Salonika and women weightlifters Jhilli Dalabehara and Sneha Soren.
The exhibition would open at 11 am every day and close at around 7.30 pm. Talk shows and cultural programmes would be held.
The exhibition focuses on India’s freedom movement from 1857 to 1947 showing various historic events like the First War of Independence, 1857, the Champaran Satyagraha, the Noncooperation Movement, the Dandi Yatra and the Quit India Movement.