A High Level Committee, headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been constituted to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
- A gazette notification to this effect was issued on January 9, 2021.
- Union Culture Ministry has said that the High Level Committee will decide on the activities for a one year long commemoration, beginning 23rd January 2021.
- Members: The Members of the Committee include distinguished citizens, historians, authors, experts, family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, as well as eminent persons associated with Azad Hind Fauj.
- The Committee will lend guidance to the commemoration activities in Delhi, Kolkata and other places associated with Netaji and Azad Hind Fauj, both in India as well as overseas.
About Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January, 1897, in Cuttack, Orissa Division, Bengal Province.
- In 1942, he earned the title ‘Netaji’ in Germany by the Indian soldiers of the Azad Hind Fauj or the Indian National Army and by the German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin.
- During his world journey, he researched and wrote the first part of his book The Indian Struggle, which covered the country’s independence movement in the years 1920–1934.
- He died on 18 August 1945.
