A 141-member State level Swarna Jayanti (golden jubilee) celebrations committee under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar has been constituted to celebrate 50 years of formation of Haryana.
The celebration of Haryana’s golden jubilee will begin on November 1 and will conclude on October 31, 2017.
The Committee includes Union Ministers, State Cabinet Ministers, MPs, MlAs, renowned sportspersons, actors, directors, industrialists, retired IAS officers, freedom fighters, leaders from opposition parties among others.
A notification in this regard has been issued by the Government, said an official spokesman.
Apart from the 141 members, there would be three official members of the Committee. These included Haryana Chief Secretary as member, Additional Chief Secretary, Sports and Youth Affairs Department as Member Secretary and
Rajeev Sharma, IAS (Retd.) as convener.
The other members of the Committee included Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and other Union Ministers namely Birender Singh, Rao Inderjeet Singh, Piyush Goyal, Krishan Pal Gujjar, Vijay Goel, General VK Singh and former Prime Minister of Fiji, Mahendra Chaudhry.
Others members included Chief of Army Staff General Dalbir Singh, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil lanba, Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar
Haryana’s ambassador for yoga and ayurveda, Baba Ramdev, State MPs, State MlAs, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, ClP leader Kiran Choudhry, State Beti Bachao Beti Padhao ambassadors actor Parineeti Chopra and Olympic medalist Sakshi Malik, Noble Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, former Chief of Army, General VP Malik, former lokayukta Justice Pritam Pal (Retd.), have also been included in the Committee.
Former cricketers Kapil Dev, Chetan Sharma, Virender Sehwag, wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, actors Om Puri and Randeep Hooda, directors Subhash Ghai and Satish Kaushik, are also the members of the committee.
Recently, the Chief Minister had unveiled the logo of State’s golden jubilee celebrations. The yearlong celebrations, to mark 50 years of Haryana, will start on November 1.
The logo sported a saffron touch with a white conch in the background and a chariot carrying lord Krishna and Arjuna in the foreground. An arrow and the number 50, resembling ‘Aum’, also found space alongside the image.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest of the inaugural function of the golden jubilee celebrations to be held at Tau Devi lal Stadium in Gurgaon on November 1.
To be marked by a host of cultural events, the celebrations will also focus on the Haryanvis’ contribution to the freedom struggle and upholding the best traditions and cultural practices, involving soldiers, farmers, sportspersons and young achievers of the state.
Haryana Government will also take out a ‘rath yatra’ as part of the celebrations. The yatra will comprise five tableaus depicting art, culture, heritage, history, progress and development of the State.