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2019 16-31 August Vol 66 No 16 ` 5 SAINIK Samachar 73rd Independence Day Celebrations pic: DPR Photo Division The President Shri Ram Nath Kovind being received by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh at the National War Memorial in New Delhi on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day. pic: DPR Photo Division The President Shri Ram Nath Kovind paying homage at the National War Memorial with the three Service Chiefs: Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, Admiral Karambir Singh and General Bipin Rawat on the 73rd Independnce Day. In This Issue Since 1909 BIRTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS President's Address to the Nation 4 (Initially published as FAUJI AKHBAR) Vol. 66 q No 16 25 Shravana – 9 Bhadrapada 1941 (Saka) 16-31 August 2019 The journal of India’s Armed Forces published every fortnight in thirteen languages including Hindi & English on behalf of Ministry of Defence. It is not necessarily an organ for the expression of the Government’s defence policy. The published items represent the views of respective writers and correspondents. Editor-in-Chief Ruby Thinda Sharma Senior Editor Manoj Tuli 6 8 PM's Address to the Nation... Raksha Mantri's Message... Sub Editors Sub Maj KC Sahu Sub Maj Baiju G Coordination Kunal Kumar Business Manager Dhirendra Kumar Our Correspondents DELHI: Lt Col M Vaishnava (Offg.); Capt DK Sharma VSM; Gp Capt Anupam Banerjee; Divyanshu Kumar; BENGALURU: Guru Prasad HL; CHANDIGARH: Anil Gaur; CHENNAI: M Ponnein Selvan; GANDHINAGAR: Wg Cdr Puneet Chadha; GUWAHATI: Lt Col P Khongsai; IMPHAL: Lt Col M Vaishnava; JALANDHAR : Gagandeep Kaur; JAMMU: Lt Col Devender Anand; JAIPUR: Lt Col Sombit Ghosh; KOCHI: Cdr Sridhar E Warrier; KOHIMA: Col Chiranjeet Konwer; KOLKATA: Dipannita Dhar; LUCKNOW: Gp Capt BB Pande (Offg.); MUMBAI: Cdr Mehul Karnik, Narendra Kumar Vispute; NAGPUR: Gp Capt BB Pande; PALAM: 10. Modernisation of Armed Forces.. 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For all correspondence subscribers must quote their subscription number On front cover: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of the 73rd Independence Day. pic: DPR Photo Division For more details visit our website: http://sainiksamachar.nic.in Follow us on: www.facebook.com/DefenceMinIndia https://twitter.com/spokespersonMoD https://www.instagram.com/prodefense/ PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO THE NATION On the Eve of India’s 73rd Independence Day ear Fellow Citizens, elected must be equal to the trust D I offer you my greetings on placed in them by their electors. It is the eve of our 73rd Independence also important because nation building Day. This is a happy and emotional –a continuous process, of which day for all children of Mother India, Independence was a key milestone whether living at home or abroad. We – requires every institution and every remember with gratitude the countless stakeholder to work in tandem, to freedom fighters and revolutionaries work in harmony and to work in who struggled, strived and made togetherness. Nation building, at the heroic sacrifices to win us our freedom end of the day, is about creating that from colonial rule. optimal partnership between voters Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh would and their representatives, between We complete 72 years as a free be of immense benefit to those citizens and their government, and nation at a very special juncture. In regions. They will enable the people between civil society and state. a few weeks from now, on October to access and enjoy the same rights, 2nd, we will celebrate the 150th same privileges and same facilities as The state and the government birth anniversary of the Father of our their fellow citizens in the rest of the have an important role here, as a Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, the guiding country. These include progressive, facilitator and an enabler. As such, it is light of our successful effort to liberate egalitarian laws and provisions related critical for our key institutions and the our nation and of our continuing effort to the Right to Education; accessing policy makers to study and appreciate to reform our society of all inequities. public information through the Right to the message being sent by citizens and to be responsive to the thoughts and Contemporary India is very Information; reservations in education and employment and other facilities wishes of our people. As the President different from the India in which of India, it is my privilege to travel all Mahatma Gandhi lived and for traditionally deprived communities; and justice for our daughters by over our country, to our diverse states worked. Even so, Gandhiji remains and regions, and meet fellow Indians extremely relevant. In his advocacy abolishing unequal practices such as instant triple talaq. from all walks of life. Indians can be of sustainability, ecological sensitivity very different in their tastes and habits, and living in harmony with nature, Earlier this summer, the people of but Indians share the same dreams. he anticipated pressing challenges India participated in the 17th general Before 1947, the dreams were for a of our times. When we design and election, the largest democratic free India. Today, the dreams are for deliver welfare programmes for our exercise in human history. For this I accelerated development; for effective disadvantaged fellow citizens and must congratulate our voters. They and transparent governance; and yet families, when we seek to harness turned up at polling stations in large for a smaller footprint of government the power of the sun as renewable numbers and with much enthusiasm. in our everyday lives. energy, we put Gandhian philosophy They gave expression to their electoral into action. right as well as their electoral Fulfilling these dreams is essential. responsibility. Any reading of the mandate of the This year also marks the 550th people would make their aspirations birth anniversary of one of the greatest, Every election marks a new clear. And while the government wisest and most influential Indians beginning. Every election is the inevitably has its part to play, I would of all time – Guru Nanak Devji. He renewal of India’s collective hope and argue that the greater opportunity and was the founder of Sikhism, but the optimism – a hope and optimism that ability lies in the skill, talent, innovation, reverence and respect he commands can be compared, I would say, to what creativity and entrepreneurship of 1.3 go far beyond just our Sikh brothers we experienced on August 15, 1947. billion Indians. These attributes are and sisters. They extend to millions of Now it is for all of us, everybody in not new. They have kept India going others in India and across the world. India, to work together and take our and have nurtured our civilisation for My best wishes to them on this pious cherished nation to new heights. thousands of years. There have been occasion. In this regard, I am happy to note times in our long history when our that the recently concluded session of people encountered hardships and Fellow Citizens, Parliament saw lengthy and productive challenges. Even on such occasions, The illustrious generation that sittings of both the Lok Sabha and the our society proved to be resilient; led us to freedom did not perceive Rajya Sabha. Many important Bills common families showed uncommon independence only in terms of transfer were passed, in a spirit of cross-party courage; and so many determined of political power. They considered cooperation and constructive debate. individuals found the strength to it a stepping stone in a longer and I am confident this is only an indicator survive and to thrive. Today, given a larger process of nation building and of what the coming five years have facilitative and enabling environment national welding. Their objective was in store. I also urge that this culture by the government, we can only to improve the life of each individual, percolates to all our legislative imagine what our people can achieve. each family and of society as a whole. assemblies. The government can build In this backdrop, I am confident Why is this important? It is financial infrastructure in the form of a that the recent changes made in important not merely because the transparent, inclusive banking system, 4 Sainik Samachar August 16-31, 2019 an online-friendly tax system and belongs to each one of us, the people Nevertheless, the greatest gift we easier access to capital for legitimate of India – is to secure another aspect of can give our young and our coming entrepreneurs.