President Droupadi Murmu will lead the national-level tribal day celebrations this yr at Birsa Munda’s native village in Jharkhand, Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda mentioned on Saturday.
Murmu can pay floral tributes to Birsa Munda on November 15 at Ulihatu, the village in Jharkhand’s Khunti district the place the revered tribal chief was born, to mark the second Janjatiya Gaurav Divas, the minister mentioned.
The identical day, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar can pay tributes at Birsa Munda’s statue in Parliament advanced within the presence of a number of MPs.
The week-long celebrations will embody a number of different national- and state-level programmes, Munda informed the media in New Delhi. A collection of occasions have additionally been deliberate at 392 Eklavya Mannequin Residential Faculties at a number of places throughout the nation.
As a part of the celebrations, the President will inaugurate a number of initiatives of the Ministry of Street and Transport in addition to the Ministry of Energy and lay the muse stone of a number of Eklavya Faculties just about from Khunti. She is predicted to handle ladies’s self-help teams in and round Khunti.
Stating that the federal government will have a good time Birsa Munda’s start anniversary “even within the remotest components of the nation”, Munda mentioned there will likely be particular emphasis in reaching out to the tribal inhabitants in border belts. Marches by the youth and performances by artists from tribal communities will likely be held in state capitals, alongside seminars, workshops, sports activities and portray competitions.
Different ministries such because the Railways, Tradition and Schooling have additionally been concerned within the programmes.
Munda mentioned Janjatiya Gaurav Divas celebrations should not simply symbolic however a resolve in direction of offering fundamental facilities, employment, schooling to individuals from tribal communities residing in distant areas and villages when the nation completes 100 years of independence in 2047.
He mentioned work is shifting swiftly in direction of completion of 740 Eklavya Mannequin Residential Faculties throughout the nation by 2026 as residential colleges for youngsters from Adivasi communities.
In 2021, the federal government had declared November 15 as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas.