Shri Sanjay Dhotre,Minister of State for Education, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology on March 23, 2021 released a Commemorative Postage Stamp on 100 Years of First Visit of Mahatma Gandhi to Odisha.
- This Commemorative Postage Stamp celebrates an important event of Indian History which is the first visit of Mahatma Gandhi to Odisha on 23rd March, 1921.
- It energized the Non-Cooperation movement and strengthened the cause of freedom struggle.
- During the visit of Mahatma Gandhi, large section of youth participated in the movement and women folk regularly spun Charkha and propagated the use of Khadi.
- Clothes of foreign origin were abandoned. Such was the magical presence of Mahatma Gandhi that Odisha woke up from slumber and plunged itself in the national movement.
