NEW DELHI: Troopers braved freezing temperatures to unfurl the Tricolour at India’s border outposts, safety personnel exchanged sweets with their Pakistani and Bangladeshi counterparts, and paramilitary forces celebrated with native villagers deep inside a Maoist hotbed because the 74th Republic Day was marked with pomp and zeal throughout India on Thursday.
In each state capital, the federal government marked the event with official ceremonies, and in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, two states that go to the polls later this yr, the chief ministers introduced sops for native residents.
Movies shared by paramilitary forces confirmed troops celebrating with the nationwide flag in Ladakh and numerous outposts alongside the Worldwide border in Jammu and Kashmir. Indian Military jawans exchanged sweets and greetings with their Pakistani counterparts at ahead posts alongside the Line of Management (LoC) in Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officers mentioned.
A video shared by Central Reserve Police Drive (CRPF) confirmed jawans celebrating with native residents within the Maoist hotbed of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh.
“First time ever: Republic Day was celebrated in Potakpalli situated within the distant area of Sukma, Chhattisgarh after CRPF established a ahead working base lower than a yr again,” the drive tweeted. “Native residents gleefully joined the festivities to create historical past.”
The Border Safety Drive (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers exchanged sweets and greetings at numerous outposts alongside the Worldwide Border in Jammu. The alternate of sweets occurred at border outposts in Akhnoor, Samba, Kathua, Arnia and RS Pura in a cordial method, a BSF official mentioned.
Within the Fulbari area of West Bengal’s Siliguri, BSF additionally exchanged sweets with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on the India-Bangladesh border.
Throughout states and Union territories, the day was noticed by calling upon the folks to reaffirm the pledge to the Structure.
In Chhattisgarh, chief minister Bhupesh Baghel mentioned unemployed younger folks within the state will likely be given a month-to-month allowance from the subsequent monetary yr. “The quantity is but to be finalised and a group is engaged on it,” mentioned a senior official of the Chhattisgarh authorities. The CM additionally introduced monetary help of ₹50,000 to development staff registered with the state authorities and ₹10,000 for every gram panchayat to organise tribal festivals in Bastar and Surguja divisions and scheduled areas from subsequent monetary yr.
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced the correct to land for landless folks and regularisation of illegally constructed properties. “Each landless individual dwelling within the state would get a plot of land and for this, the Chief Minister’s Residential Land Rights Scheme has been began,” he mentioned in Jabalpur.
He additionally promised that the federal government can pay the schooling charges of meritorious college students whose annual household revenue is lower than ₹8 lakh, and introduced a number of infrastructure initiatives reminiscent of constructing Narmada Parikrama Path.
Elections within the two states will likely be held in November-December together with Rajasthan .
In Assam, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma urged members of separatist group ULFA(I) to return to the mainstream and be part of the event course of. “As soon as they arrive for talks, Assam will remodel into an island of peace,” Sarma mentioned in his Republic-Day speech in Guwahati.
He additionally talked about peace accords with Bodo, Karbi and Adivasi teams in the previous couple of years, which he mentioned had ensured a return of peace to the state. Referring to the implementation of clauses of the Bodo peace accord, Sarma introduced that villages with 80% or extra of its inhabitants in Dhekiajuli, Sootea, Gohpur and neighbouring areas will likely be introduced beneath the Bodoland Territorial Area.
The Assam CM additionally introduced a ₹300-crore undertaking to develop the Kamakhya Temple right into a prime non secular tourism vacation spot.
In Maharashtra, a complete of 189 inmates have been launched from numerous prisons on the event of Republic Day, an official mentioned. This included 35 folks every from the central prisons in Nashik and Nagpur, 20 from Yerawada Central Jail in Pune, 16 from Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai, 11 from Thane Central Jail and 4 from Mumbai Central Jail (Arthur Street Jail), a prisons division spokesperson mentioned.
In Tamil Nadu, governor RN Ravi mentioned exterior forces and sure teams “uncomfortable with the rise of recent India” are “unleashing terror” to disrupt the nation’s development and concord, and chief minister MK Stalin appealed to the folks to eradicate social evils that are inclined to divide the lots.
Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan praised the state authorities led by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan for engaged on the imaginative and prescient of a “Navakeralam” by addressing key areas reminiscent of agriculture and setting, housing, well being care and schooling.
Khan mentioned Kerala’s prime place within the newest Efficiency Grading Index (PGI) of the Union ministry of schooling, the progress within the attainment of Sustainable Improvement Targets and the efficient administration of decentralised planning have been broadly appreciated.
In Uttarakhand, governor Gurmit Singh and chief minister Puskhar Singh Dhami honoured the 4 first responders who got here to the help of Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant after his automobile crash on December 30. Pant had a miraculous escape when his luxurious automobile crashed into the street divider and caught hearth on the Delhi-Dehradun Freeway.