Novel Delhi: After everlasting flame of the Amar Jawan Jyoti used to be extinguished and symbolically merged with the flame at National War Memorial, the different share of the monument — the enduring inverted Rifle and Helmet– used to be on Friday also shifted from India Gate to the unique war memorial.
In a ceremony “Inverted Rifle and the Helmet”, the image of Fallen Troopers of 1971 India-Pakistan war, used to be shifted from India Gate, to Param Yodha Sthal at National War Memorial and installed in the midst of Busts of Param Vir Chakra Awardees.
“With this ceremony, the mix of the Memorial of Fallen Troopers of 1971 war with National War Memorial has been finished,” acknowledged defence ministry in a assertion.
The ceremony used to be led by Chief of Integrated Defence Workers to the Chairman, Chiefs of Workers Committee (CISC) Air Marshal BR Krishna and attended by Adjutant General equivalents from the three Providers. As share of the ceremony, a final salute used to be given and CISC equipped a wreath at India Gate. “Thereafter the Inverted Rifle and Helmet used to be removed and carried in a ceremonial automotive to the Param Yodha Sthal and installed at a newly created monument. CISC accompanied by the AGs equivalents from three Providers presented a salute to the unique monument,” it acknowledged.
In January the everlasting flame on the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate used to be extinguished and symbolically “merged” forever with the everlasting flame at National War Memorial in a solemn ceremony.
The monument Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate used to be formally inaugurated in January 1972 to honour the 3,843 Indian infantrymen who laid down their lives in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 by then Top Minister Indira Gandhi. It used to be symbolised by an inverted L1A1 self-loading rifle with a bayonet and soldier’s helmet on its high with the everlasting flames burning beside it.
A generation of Indians from in each place the country from final 50 years maintain visited Amar Jawan Jyoti to pay their admire to fallen Indian infantrymen and it has etched strongly in the emotional psyche of Indians.
National War Memorial built to honour Indian infantrymen who fell whereas defending the country after Independence used to be dedicated to the nation in February 2019 by Top minister Narendra Modi. After the inauguration of the National War memorial, all defense force ceremonial events had been shifted to it from the India Gate memorial.
It used to be in 2020 that for the first time, Top Minister Modi had paid respects to the fallen infantrymen on the National War Memorial on a Republic Day and no longer on the Amar Jawan Jyoti which used to be the custom unless then.
Names of all military males from three services who died in the carrier of the nation after 15th August 1947 is inscribed on the partitions of the Memorial in golden letters.
India Gate used to be constructed by the British to honour the 83,000 British Indian Military infantrymen who died at some level of World War 1 and the third Anglo-Afghan War.
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