Nagaland, along with the rest of the country, is observing Meri Maati Mera Desh campaign as the culminating event of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
KOHIMA, AUGUST 11 (MExN): Nagaland, along with the rest of the country, is observing Meri Maati Mera Desh campaign as the culminating event of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
The campaign envisages paying tributes to the 'Veers' (Brave hearts), hoisting of National Flags, pledge taking and planting of 75 saplings of indigenous trees.
In the first part of the campaign, the Deputy Commissioners in coordination with the Project Directors (DRDA) shall get the site identified in each recognized village for erection of the memorial plaque (Silaphalakam) and for holding the programme, informed Orenthung Lotha, Secretary to the Government of Nagaland (Home).
The site, as advised may be in/around Amrit Sarovar and other water bodies if available.
In the places where water bodies are not available, memorial plaque may be constructed in the compound of village council offices/schools/community halls or at some prominent location. After identification of the sites, the Veers (Brave hearts) will have to be identified for felicitation in each village/town.
Felicitation ceremonies would be held for defense personnel/CAPF/Freedom Fighters/Veer/Families of brave hearts who have made the supreme sacrifice for the country as per local traditions and customs.
There would be flag hoisting and singing of the National Anthem by the participants at each of the programme sites both in the rural and urban.
The participants are to take a solemn pledge by holding a fistful of soil (mitti). During the ceremony, people can take selfie while taking the pledge with soil in the hand and upload it to the dedicated website https://yuva.gov.in/meri_maati_mera_desh.
The planting of 75 (seventy five) saplings of indigenous long-lasting trees and developing Amrit Vatika would symbolize the celebration of 75 years of Independence, reaffirming our bond with the nurturing earth and renewing our pledge to it for future generations.
Nodal officers would collect soil (mitti) from villages and bring to the block head quarters, Lotha stated.
In the second part of the campaign, Mitti Yatras youth volunteers and the Department would ceremoniously put the soils collected from the villages falling in a block in an earthen pot (mitti-kalash).
Similarly, for the urban areas, a location could be chosen in the district headquarter town, and in a programme held at that location, soils brought from all the urban local bodies in that district could be put in an earthen pot. The earthen pots containing soil from all the districts shall be collected/deposited at Dimapur.
Thereafter, the earthen pots containing the soil would be taken by selected youth from each block/district headquarter town to Kartavya Path, New Delhi for the finale event. The programmes in villages, small urban local bodies and uploading of selfies would be conducted from August 9 to 15.
At blocks and bigger municipalities, the programme will begin from August 16 to 20 and state Level ceremonial programmes from August 16 to 25. Meanwhile, Lotha requested all the citizens of the state to participate in the campaign/programme in befitting manner.
