The festival, which runs from July 18-23, will see decorated trains and light up stations, as well as stage plays and shows on the freedom struggle.
The festival, which runs from July 18-23, will see decorated trains and light up stations, as well as stage plays and shows on the freedom struggle.
The Indian Railways on Monday announced a week-long celebration as part of the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to commemorate 75 years of Independence, highlighting the importance of 27 trains and 75 railway stations for the freedom struggle. will be inserted.
The festival, which runs from July 18-23, will see decorated trains and light up stations, along with staging events like street plays, light and sound shows, performances in local languages. Playing video movies and patriotic songs.
Under the programme, 27 identified trains will be flagged off by the family members of the freedom fighters and will be suitably decorated and the historical facts about the trains will be shared with the citizens, especially the younger generation, Railway Board Chairman and CEO VK will be featured for the benefit of. Tripathi told reporters on Monday.
Additionally, on the last day of the festival, the family members of freedom fighters from the respective local areas will be invited to the stations to share their story.
While the stations will be called ‘Swatantra Stations’, the trains will be called ‘Spotlight Trains’, Mr Tripathi said. Photo exhibitions and selfie points will be set up in the background of ‘Azadi Ki Rail Gaadi’ and will remain at these stations throughout the week.
Most of the trains identified are Mahatma Gandhi – Ahimsa Express running between Ahmedabad and Pune, Ashram Express (Ahmedabad – Delhi), August Kranti Tejas Express (Mumbai Central – Hazrat Nizamuddin), Hutatma (Pune – Solapur), Lokshakti Express. (Bandra Terminus-Ahmedabad), Navjeevan (Ahmedabad-Chennai Central), Navyug (Mangalore Central-Jammu Tawi), Sabarmati (Ahmedabad-Varanasi and Ahmedabad-Darbhanga), Sarvodaya (Ahmedabad-Jammu Tawi), Sevagram (Mumbai CST-Nagpur) , Shanti (Gandhinagar Rajdhani – Indore) and Swaraj (Bandra Terminus – Jammu Tawi).
The list also includes trains named after the famous poet Rabindranath Tagore, who wrote songs that raised the spirits of the Indian independence movement and freedom fighters. These trains include Shantiniketan Express (Howrah-Bolpur), Geetanjali (Mumbai CST-Howrah) and Gurudev (Nagarcoil-Shalimar). Trains named after Netaji Subhas Bose are also on the list – Netaji Express (Howrah-Kalka) and Azad Hind (Pune-Howrah).
Some of the stations include Cuttack (birthplace of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose), Puri (Chakhi Khuntia and Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das), Sambalpur (Veer Surendra Sai) and Dhenkanal (Baji Raut). Gomoh in Jharkhand and Khudiram Bose Pusa station in Bihar have also been selected to connect with Netaji and Khudiram Bose respectively.
The Northeast Frontier Railway has nine stations where the celebrations will take place, while the North Central Railway will have four. Central Railway will celebrate ‘Azadi Ki Rail Garhi Aur Station’ at Guntur, Vijayawada, Gadwal and Hyderabad, while West Central Railway will do so in Jabalpur and Bhopal.