Fit India Movement

फिट इंडिया मूवमेंट
प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने गुरुवार को 'फिट इंडिया' आंदोलन शुरू किया, जिसमें कहा गया कि यह समय की जरूरत है और यह देश को एक स्वस्थ भविष्य की ओर ले जाएगा।

एक रंगीन समारोह में, जिसमें भारत के स्वदेशी मार्शल आर्ट रूपों, नृत्य और खेलों की प्रस्तुति शामिल थी, मोदी ने कहा कि प्रौद्योगिकी ने एक गतिहीन जीवन शैली में योगदान दिया है।


मोदी ने इस कार्यक्रम में कहा, "फिटनेस हमेशा से हमारी संस्कृति का एक अभिन्न हिस्सा रहा है। लेकिन अब फिटनेस के मुद्दों के प्रति उदासीनता है। कुछ दशक पहले, एक सामान्य व्यक्ति 8-10 किमी पैदल चलता था, साइकिल चलाता था या दौड़ता था।"

"लेकिन तकनीक के साथ, शारीरिक गतिविधि कम हो गई है। हम अब कम चलते हैं और वही तकनीक हमें बताती है कि हम पर्याप्त नहीं चल रहे हैं," उन्होंने कहा।

इस लॉन्च में खेल मंत्री किरेन रिजिजू और इस साल के राष्ट्रीय खेल पुरस्कार विजेता भी शामिल थे।

रिजिजू ने कहा, हम अपने साथी भारतीयों के सहयोग से इस आंदोलन को नई ऊंचाइयों तक ले जाएंगे। मुझे खुशी है कि यह आंदोलन हमारे हॉकी के जादूगर मेजर ध्यानचंद की जयंती पर शुरू किया जा रहा है।

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 WORLD WATER DAY HISTORY
World Water Day is celebrated every year on 22nd of March by the people all across the world. The day was established to be celebrated as an annual event in the year 1993 by the decision of the United Nations General Assembly. This campaign was declared as a World Day for Water to be celebrated on 22nd of March each year to increase the awareness among the people about the importance, need and conservation of water.

It was first officially added in the schedule 21 of the year 1992 “United Nations Conference on Environment and Development” in the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and celebration was started from the year 1993 to motivate the general public in order to get their support in water conservation by avoiding the use of their taps for whole day.

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The United Nation including member nations celebrate this campaign by implementing the UN recommendations as well as promoting the global water conservation through the real activities. This campaign is specially promoted by one of the UN agencies every year which involves encouraging the people to listen and understand about the water issues as well as coordinating with the international activities for the World Water Day. Since the beginning of this event celebration the UN-Water has been responsible for the selection of World Water Day theme, distribution of global messages as well as leading the UN agencies for celebrating the World Day for Water.

Including the UN member states and agencies, various NGOs and non government organizations also become involved in the promotion of clean water conservation focusing the public attention over all the critical issues of water. During this event celebration, all the water issues are highlighted to the public such as how people are inaccessible to the safe water and etc.

HOW WORLD WATER DAY IS CELEBRATED
World water day is celebrated throughout the world to increase the awareness of people towards the importance of water in various field of life including the environment, health, agriculture and trade. It is celebrated by organizing variety of events and activities such as visual art, theatrical and musical celebrations of water, excursions to the local ponds, lakes, rivers and reservoirs, symposium at local, national and international level over water management and safety, distributing messages through TV and radio channels or internet, educational events based on the importance of clean water and conservative measures, competitions and so many activities. The main symbol of the World Water Day celebration is the shape of water drop of blue color.



WORLD WATER DAY THEMES
> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 1993 was “Water for Cities”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 1994 was “Caring for our Water Resources is Everybody’s Business”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 1995 was “Women and Water”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 1996 was “Water for Thirsty Cities”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 1997 was “The World’s Water: Is there enough”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 1998 was “Groundwater – The Invisible Resource”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 1999 was “Everyone Lives Downstream”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2000 was “Water for the 21st century”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2001 was “Water for Health”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2002 was “Water for Development”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2003 was “Water for Future”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2004 was “Water and Disasters”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2005 was “Water for Life 2005–2015”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2006 was “Water and Culture”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2007 was “Coping with Water Scarcity”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2008 was “Sanitation”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2009 was “Trans Waters”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2010 was “Clean Water for a Healthy World”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2011 was “Water for cities: responding to the urban challenge”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2012 was “Water and Food Security”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2013 was “Water Cooperation”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2014 was “Water and Energy”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2015 was “Water and Sustainable Development”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2016 was “Water and Jobs”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2017 is “Wastewater”.

> The theme for World Water Day celebration of the year 2018 would be “Nature-based Solutions for Water”.

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National Youth Day (Yuva Diwas or Swami Vivekananda Birthday) is celebrated with the great joy and enthusiasm in India every year on 12th of January. It is celebrated to commemorate the birthday of Swami Vivekananda, maker of the modern India. It was first declared by the Government of India in the year 1984 to celebrate the birthday of Swami Vivekananda as the National Youth Day. Since then (1985), it is started celebrating as the National Youth Day all over the country.



NATIONAL YOUTH DAY 2018
National youth day (Yuva Diwas or Swami Vivekananda Birthday) 2018 will be celebrated all over India on 12th of January, at Friday.

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It is well known that the Government of India had declared to observe the National Youth Day every year on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda on 12th of January. It was decided by the Government of India in order to inspire all the youths of country towards the philosophy of Swami Vivekananda and his ideals. The birthday of the Swami Vivekananda was decided to be celebrated as the National Youth Day to complete the aim of making better future of the country by motivating the youths through the way of life and ideas of the Swami Vivekananda.

It is the aim of great importance of distributing the ideas and ideals of the Swami Vivekananda among the youths of India. It is the great way to wake up the eternal energy of the youths as well as their big efforts to make the country developed.



Swami Vivekananda was born on 12th of January in the year 1863 in the Pausha Krishna Saptami tithi. The birthday of the Swami Vivekananda is celebrated every year at many centres of the Ramakrishna Math, Ramakrishna Mission and their branch centres according to the Indian culture and tradition. A great mangal aarti, hoom, devotional songs, meditation, religious speech as well as the sandhya aarti is performed while celebrating the birthday of the Swami Vivekananda.

ACTIVITIES ON NATIONAL YOUTH DAY
National Youth Day (Yuva Diwas or Swami Vivekananda Birthday) is celebrated by the youths at all the schools, colleges by performing the parade, speech on Swami Vivekananda, recitations, music, songs, conventions, Yogasanas, presentations, competition for essay-writing, seminar, sports and etc. Lectures and writings related to the ideas of Swami Vivekananda are also performed by the students to inspire the Indian youths.

Variety of other performances are also carried out by the people participated in the event all over the India as well as outside the country in order to promote education, art, way of life, trust among youths inspire their inner soul.





An event for two days for all the age group is organized by the Mission Bhartiyam in Uttar Pradesh. This event includes dozen of activities and named as the Basti Yuvo Mahotsav. The day is celebrated by the government, non-profit organizations as well as corporate groups in their own way.

The event celebration is started in the early morning with the pooja of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda and Swami Ramakrishnananda. A great hoom is performed after the pooja by the Monks and devotees. Then devotees offer pushpanjali and aarti to the statue of Swami Vivekananda. In the end, distribution of Prasad takes place.

WHY NATIONAL YOUTH DAY IS CELEBRATED
Philosophies, teachings and ideas of the Swami Vivekananda are the great cultural and traditional assets of India. Youths are the most important part of the country who leads the country ahead, that’s why youths are selected to be inspired first by the ideas and ideals of the Swami Vivekananda. So, the National Youth Day is started celebrating every year to encourage and inspire the honorable youths of the India. Schools and colleges are delightfully adorned to enthusiastically celebrate the event.

Swami Vivekananda was a great person who always believed in the youth power to lead and nourish the historical culture of the country and carry some advancement required by the country to be developed.

NATIONAL YOUTH DAY THEME
Following are the year wise theme of national youth day celebration in India:

> The theme of 2011 was “Sabse Pehle Bharat”.

> The theme of 2012 was “Celebrating Diversity In Unity”.

> The theme of 2013 was “Awakening The Youth Power”.

> The theme of 2014 was “Youth For Drugs Free World”.

> The theme of 2015 was “Youngmanch” and “Youth for Clean, Green and Progressive India” (and slogan was “hum se hai nayi shuruaat”).

> The theme of 2016 was “Indian Youth for Development, Skill and Harmony”.

> The theme of 2017 was “Youth for Digital India”.





NATIONAL YOUTH DAY QUOTES
Following are some famous quotes on national youth day said by the Swami Vivekananda:

> “Choose the highest ideal and live your life upto that. Look at the “ocean” and not at the wave”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “Struggle hard to get money, but don’t get attached to it”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “Each soul is potentially divine”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “Talk to yourself once in a day…Otherwise you may miss meeting an EXCELLENT person in this World”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers!”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “Work, work, work – let this be your motto”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “The earth is enjoyed by heroes—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear””. – Swami Vivekananda

> “Feel that you are great and you become great”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient – good to themselves and the country at large”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “Death being so certain, it is better to die for a good cause”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “It is best to work among the youth in whom lies our hope — patiently, steadily, and without noise”. – Swami Vivekananda

> “The child is father of the man.” Would it be right for an old man to say that childhood is a sin or youth a sin?” – Swami Vivekananda

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Dandi March day is celebrated every year in India on 12th of March with great enthusiasm by the people to commemorate the Salt Satyagraha as a non violence campaign run by the Bapu in the continuation of Indian Independence Movement.


WHAT IS A DANDI MARCH/SALT MARCH
Dandi March is a Salt March which is named after the Salt Satyagraha revolution in India during the Indian Independence Movement. The Salt March has also been named as the White Flowing River as this campaign was run by people wearing white khadi. Dandi March was started in India on 12th of March in 1930 under the leadership of the Mahatma Gandhi (Bapu) as an important element to the Indian independence movement.

This march was started in India as a direct action campaign against the tax over by the British Rule. It was a nonviolent protest by the Indians to resist the British salt domination in India. It is considered as the wider Civil Disobedience Movement of the Indian against British Rule. It was raised by the Indian people as a big challenge to the British authority.

WHO LED THE DANDI MARCH
Dandi March was led by the Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu) from his Sabarmati Ashram (near Ahmedabad) to the Dandi, a coastal village located in a city named Navsari, Gujarat. It was a continuous movement by the Indian people for 24 days and 390 km march to get own prepared salt without paying any tax to the British Government.

Salt laws were broken by the Bapu at around 6:30 am on 5th of April in the year 1930. This march caught fire as a big Indian civil disobedience against salt laws of British Raj. This campaign, during which a mass of Indian people joined to fight for their own freedom, had significantly affected the British attitudes towards the Indian independence.

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It was a huge salt campaign in order to generate own salt for the people of India, to oppose the tax payment and continue the Indian Independence Movement. Bapu led the Indian people towards south coast in order to continue the salt production after starting the salt making process at Dandi. Before starting a Satyagraha at Dharasana Salt Works (25 miles away from Dandi towards south), he got arrested on 4–5th (midnight) of May in the year 1930. Together with the Bapu, around 80,000 people of India were sent to the jail after the Salt Satyagraha.

The Salt Satyagraha campaign was run by the leader of India, Mahatma Gandhi, as a nonviolent protest against the British Rule. The literal meaning of the Satyagraha is the “truth force”. This non violent protest in the Dharasana covered a big area all over the world as an effective civil disobedience news against the social and political injustice of British. This campaign in India affected a lot to the American civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr., and helped him to his civil rights fight for blacks during 1960s.

CONTRIBUTION OF DANDI MARCH IN THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT
Dandi March campaign was the continuation for the Indian Independence Movement which affected the British rule to the great extent. In the 1929, during the midnight on 31st of December a tricolor Indian flag was made by the Indian National Congress at Lahore. The Indian National Congress party was led by the Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru for the freedom or Purna Swaraj of India.

India was ruined in every aspect such as politically, economically, culturally and spiritually by the British Rule. Salt Satyagraha was proved as a big way to break the British rule and accomplish Purna Swaraj in the India. This campaign was held under the leadership of Gandhi Ji as a first civil disobedience against the British salt tax. According to the Salt Act of 1882, British authority was authorized to manage the manufacturing of salt to which the people of India were bounded to purchase the salt of colonial government.



The salt tax by the British rule over the Indian people was very hurtful event for the poorest Indians. As salt was the daily use necessity of the life like water and air, people of India were forced to take salt from the British authority by paying tax. In order to remove the salt tax and produce own salt, Bapu and other 78 satyagrahis including Sarojini Naidu raised their foot from Sabarmati Ashram towards the coastal village of Dandi, Gujarat on 12th of March in 1930.

The first day of the march was ended with 21 km in the Aslali village. Throughout the whole march, various villages were passed and crowds increased on the way of March by beating the drums and singing the Hindu bhajan “Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram”. Bapu denoted in his speech that the salt tax is inhuman whereas the salt Satyagraha is a “poor man’s battle”. This movement was very necessary to bring poor people on the way to fight for their own freedom, rights and country.

They started making their own salt by boiling the salty mud into the seawater to shake the British Empire against the salt tax. Gandhi Ji told his thousands of followers to start making salt alongside the seashores wherever it is possible. It was started making and buying the illegal salt at the seashore, even the salt made by Gandhi Ji was sold for 1,600 rupees at that time and he was arrested including sixty thousand people by the British government.

Salt Satyagraha brought a big revolution as a mass Satyagraha when people started denying for the cloths, goods and variety of tax payment by the British rule. Gandhi Ji’s close associates, Ghaffar Khan and C. Rajagopalachari (later became the first Governor General of the independent India) were also arrested because of being involved in the Salt Satyagraha.

Dandi March Celebration in India

Great Salt March campaign celebration is organized every year by the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation to commemorate the event which has also been named as the “International Walk for Justice and Freedom”. The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi (Tushar Gandhi) including several other marcher follow the same Dandi route.

During the celebration of the year 2005, the march was started on 12th of March in Ahmedabad in the presence of Sonia Gandhi. In order to commemorate the event, a series of Dandi March related stamps has been issued by the Government of India on its 75th anniversary in 2005.

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Anti Leprosy Day (Martyrdom Day of Mahatma Gandhi) 2018 was celebrated all over India at Tuesday, on 30th of January.




On this occasion, a campaign named as the ‘Sparsh’ Leprosy Awareness Campaign, is being organized in all the Gramsabhas throughout the country by Central Leprosy Division, Directorate General of Health Services Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It is to pay homage to the Bapu by giving place to the leprosy affected people in family and society. This awareness campaign includes the following important information about leprosy to help leprosy affected people:



> Free of cost multi drug therapy is available at all government dispensaries, health centres and hospitals to provide complete treatment to the leprosy affected people.

> This facility is given to all the leprosy affected people because only timely treatment prevents disability (caused by leprosy).

> Some important symptoms of leprosy are like light color patches, redness, swelling and nodule formation over the skin. Person, who notice any of the above symptoms, must contact his/her nearest government dispensaries, health centres and hospitals in order to get early treatment and remain away from disability.

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30th January, the Martyrdom Day of the great person Gandhi Ji, is celebrated every year as the Anti Leprosy Day all over the India in order to re-memorize his selfless efforts and care for the people affected by the infectious disease leprosy (also known as the Hansen’s disease). It is celebrated to understand the real need to fight against the leprosy. Anti-Leprosy Day campaign is celebrated in the schools premises by showing the presentation as well as movie to the students to aware them towards the much infectious disease Leprosy.

Anyone can be affected with this disease, so the day is celebrated to make aware the people about the scientific reasons of leprosy as well as its medical cures. It would be celebrated at the same day at 30th of January in the year 2014 in order focusing on the attention of people and their awareness about this air-borne disease. The day is also celebrated in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi who had tried very much for the eradication of leprosy. Several programmes are organized at this day all across the India to share the message with people to fight against leprosy and let them know that the disease is completely curable.





According to the report it has been noted that there is a mark reduction in the disease rate as the Government of India has made available the multi-drug Leprosy treatment (NLEP-National Leprosy Eradication Program) free of cost at all government health centers all over the India. Leprosy is the oldest recorded diseases in the world which is an infectious chronic disease which targets affecting the nervous system (specially the nerves of the hands, feet and face). The diseased patients were nursed by the Mahatma Gandhi Ji at the Sabarmati ashram.

A free check-up camp is organized at the anti leprosy day celebration for the leprosy patients at each health centers which effectively changes the attitudes of people towards the disease. It is a disease caused by the bacteria (Mycobacterium laprae), it is not the hereditary disease, so it is fully curable by the regular and adequate treatment which is very necessary to cure the disease and prevent its disabilities. The Government of India has made a plan to completely eradicate it from the India by the distant goal named Leprosy Elimination Target. Variety of leprosy control activities has been launched by the World Health Organization for further reducing the disease worldwide.

The celebration of the day targets to aware people about disease myths such as it is not spread by simply touching affected person.

Objectives of Celebrating Anti Leprosy Day

> To raise the leprosy awareness among people.

> To offer help to those affected by disease through the regular and free of cost treatment they need.

> To make the diseased person psychologically strong and help them to cope up with physical impairments of skin sores and nerve damage.

> To ascertain that all affected persons are getting the necessary treatment, rehabilitation and care or not.

> To estimate the marked decrease or increase in the rate of spreading disease.

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World Deaf Day is celebrated every year in last week (last Sunday of the month of September) of the September to draw the attention of general public, politician and development authorities towards the achievements of the deaf people as well as deaf people community. Throughout the celebration of the event, all the deaf people organization worldwide are encouraged greatly to fulfill the demands and needs of the deaf people as well as increasing their rights all over the world.



WORLD DEAF DAY 2018
World Deaf Day 2018 will be celebrated at last Sunday (30th of September) in the month of September.

WORLD DEAF DAY HISTORY
A person named, Granville Richard Seymour Redmond (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA in the year 1871) got deafness because of the scarlet fever in his early childhood. He was supported by his family to a lot and given higher education in a special school. He was the owner of the natural artistic talents which was getting spread all over the world.

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He also learned the painting, drawing and pantomime from the famous California School of Design in San Francisco. He was very talented as same as a normal person. Because of this reason, the World Deaf Day is commemorated all over the world for the deaf and by the deaf for their healthier conditions, better life, self-esteem, nationality, schooling and work.

IMPORTANCE AND ACTIVITIES OF WORLD DEAF DAY CELEBRATION
People must participate in celebrating the World Deaf Day not only as Deaf Day but to expand the way of growth and development through the new technologies as well as to offer deaf people wide variety of opportunities to change their lifestyle. It is celebrated with the rallies, seminar and various deaf awareness campaigns including some fun events.

Various social organizations of the Varanasi city is working for the deaf people rights as well as aware the common people about noise pollution hazards through the several programmes and rallies which begins from the Luxa police station, passing through the Gurubagh, Rathyatra, Sigra and ends at the Shahid Udyan of the city.

OBJECTIVES OF WORLD DEAF DAY
> To promote understanding among common people about the problems of deaf people in the community all over the world.

> To motivate deaf people to learn sign language as an essential human right.

> To make available the required resources in the community for deaf people.

> To promote the deaf people human rights about equal access to the education and modern technologies.

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In India, the National Mathematics Day is observed on December 22 every year. It is celebrated in order to honor the birth anniversary of the famous mathematician Sir Srinivasa Ramanujan. He was the world famous mathematician who made remarkable contributions in different fields and branches of the subject mathematics.

NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY 2018
National Mathematics Day 2018 will be celebrated on 22nd December, Saturday across the nation.

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The great Srinivasa Ramanujan took birth on December 22 in the year 1887 in Erode situated in the city of today’s Tamil Nadu. He read mathematics voraciously and started developing his own research in isolation in the beginning. Srinivasa was an autodidact; he was a self-taught person and never had any formal training in mathematics. He first solved the formal and regular mathematics when he was 10 years old. When he was at the school, he received several merit certificates and academic awards.

Ramanujan has greatly contributed towards mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. In the year 1913, Srinivasa Ramanujan came in contact with the European mathematicians for further developing his knowledge and interest towards mathematics. He was also elected to various societies organized for the debate and discussion on mathematics. He started exchanging letters with the world famous mathematician G. H. Hardy and ultimately moved to England in the year 1914. He spent around 5 years at Cambridge and issued a number of papers during his stay there.

For his memorable and great contributions towards mathematics, the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan was declared as the National Mathematics Day in the year 2012 by the then Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh.  The year 2012 was celebrated as the National Mathematics Year across the country India for the first time.

WHY IS NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY CELEBRATED?
National Mathematics Day is celebrated in India for paying tribute to the great mathematicians of India. The former Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh spoke about the great contributions of the world famous mathematicians and emphasized the necessity to carry their legacy forward by celebrating National Mathematics Day. The great Indian mathematicians such as Brahmagupta, Aryabhata, and Srinivasa Ramanujan have played a significant role in developing different formulas, theorems and theories on mathematics in India. And thus, it is important to promote and cultivate the magnificent tradition of Indian mathematics by celebrating National Mathematics Day.

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Centre for Higher Mathematics named after Ramanujan at the Alagappa University. He also said that the application of mathematics had been broadly accepted in the study of Economics, Science and various other disciplines.

Dr. Singh also acknowledged that our nation is short of proficient mathematicians and it is the duty of the community of mathematics to promote and make possible the research and study of mathematics as an educational discipline in India.

Dr. Singh paid tribute to the legendary Srinivasa Ramanujan and said that he was the great son of Tamil Nadu and India who made a remarkable contribution to the world of Mathematics worldwide. In order to remember and honor his memorable contributions to mathematics, the Indian government decided and announced to celebrate the National Mathematics Day annually on the birthday of Ramanujan. The year 2012 was declared as the National Mathematical Year.

The Governor of Tamil Nadu K. Rosaiah acknowledged that it was the hard work, vividness, and enthusiasm that made Srinivasa Ramanujan a legendary mathematician. The universities are also appealed to encourage students for research and development in mathematics. By celebrating the national mathematics day, a platform for research and development can be created. This platform would help the students and researchers to continue the legacy of development which had been long left behind by the original and founding fathers of mathematics and science.





HOW IS NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY CELEBRATED?
National Mathematics Day is celebrated across India at different schools, Colleges, Universities and Educational Institutions of India.

The announcement to celebrate National Mathematics Day on 22nd December was declared by Dr. Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister on the 125th birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan.

The International Society UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and India agreed to work together for spreading the joy of learning and understanding mathematics. They also take various steps in educating the students on Mathematics and spread the knowledge to the students and learners throughout the world.

NASI (The National Academy of Sciences India) is the oldest Science Academy located in Allahabad. In order to celebrate the National Mathematics Day, NASI organized a 3-day workshop under the title ‘Emerging development in Mathematics and applications of Ramanujan in the area of q-Hyper geometric series’. The workshop was attended by the popular lecturers and experts in the field of mathematics from across the nation. The speakers spoke about the great contributions made by Srinivasa Ramanujan in the field of Mathematics in the country and the world level. The work of Ramanujan in the field of cryptography was also praised at the conference and the numerous theorems he created was appreciated too.

All the states in India celebrate National Mathematics Day in different ways. Various competitions and mathematical quiz are held at the school, college and university level. Mathematics genius and students from across India participate in events held on the day. The School of Mathematical Sciences of North Maharashtra University (NMU) located in Jalgaon celebrated the National Mathematics Day with great enthusiasm in the year 2015. Different types of Objective Test Competition, Quiz Competition, and Poster Presentation Competition were held. Suggested themes were ‘Indian Mathematics’, Mathematics for Life’ and ‘Application of Mathematics’. The themes and competition are basically intended to develop the knowledge of emerging students in the field of mathematics.

A Workshop on “Historical Progression of Mathematics” was also held at Jalgaon in 2015 celebration. It was planned for the Teachers of the College and the students at the Research Department of Mathematics. The workshop was an endeavor to offer a common platform for young teachers and researchers of the colleges. National Mathematics Day celebration focuses more on the Promotion and Development of Research related to Mathematics and the Prospects present in different fields of Mathematics.





SOME MORE SUGGESTIONS FOR CELEBRATING NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY
India owns legendary Mathematicians such as Brahmagupta, Aryabhata, and Srinivasa Ramanujan. These legendaries have not only shaped the face of Indian Mathematics but have also gained tremendous popularity worldwide.

Every state in India must recognize the great contributions made by these mathematicians and celebrate the National Mathematics Day with great zeal and enthusiasm. The schools, colleges, and Universities at the state level must organize quiz, competitions and other cultural events for the celebration. This would not only create competitiveness in the students but would also enhance their knowledge.

The Engineering Colleges and Technical Institutes must also celebrate National Mathematics Day and Researchers and Developers from across the nation should be invited to deliver lectures and share their knowledge and experience. This would motivate the emerging engineering students. It would also offer a common platform to collectively tackle the problems faced in the field of mathematics.

About Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan is one of the greatest Indian mathematicians whose aids and contributions gave an entirely new meaning to mathematics. He was born on December 22, 1887, in Erode situated in Tamil Nadu, India. His theory of numbers consists of revolutionary findings of the properties of the functions of partition.

When he was only 15 years old, he found a copy of ‘Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics written by George Shoobridge Carr in the year 1886. The book is significant as it was the main source of information for the self-taught and legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It is also been said that the book played a huge role and is a key factor in arousing the brilliance and intelligence of Ramanujan. He reportedly studied and followed in detail each and every contents of the book.

After verifying the results and descriptions in Carr’s book, Srinivasa Ramanujan went beyond and developed his own ideas and theorems. In 1903 he won a scholarship to the ‘University of Madras but lost it later in the following year as he ignored all other studies related to mathematics. This did not discourage him and he continued his research and work without any employment. He lived in the poorest conditions and was determined towards his research work. He got married in the year 1909 and started searching for everlasting employment; this led him to meet one of the government officials, Mr. Ramachandra Rao. Mr. Rao was highly impressed by the mathematical knowledge and prowess of Ramanujan. Mr. Rao even agreed to support Ramanujan’s research for a certain time. But Ramanujan was not willing to continue with any work on charity and ultimately he obtained a clerical position with the Port Trust, Madras.

In the year 1911, Ramanujan got his first paper issued in the Journal confined to the Society of the Indian Mathematics. His outstanding ability and intelligence gradually started gaining popularity and in the year 1913, he started communicating with Godfrey H. Hardy, the famous British mathematician. This interaction helped Ramanujan in gaining a special scholarship from the Madras University and a funding from Trinity College in Cambridge. Ramanujan overcame his religious protests and traveled to England in the year 1914 to meet Hardy. He enhanced his knowledge further and Hardy taught him several formulas, theorems, etc related to mathematics. Hardy even did some research in association with Ramanujan during his stay in England.

Ramanujan’s worked out the majority of the mathematics formulas himself and his knowledge was amazing. Even though, Ramanujan was nearly unacquainted of the modern developments which were taking place in mathematics, his expertise over continued fractions was incomparable with any mathematician that lived during that time. He worked upon the elliptic integrals, the functional and practical equations of the zeta function, the Riemann series, the hyper geometric series and his own theory of various series.

Ramanujan made complementary advances during his stay in England. He especially improved his knowledge and wrote several papers describing a partition of numbers. His papers got issued in English and in European journals. He even got elected to the Royal Society of London Royal Society in the year in 1918. Unfortunately, in the year 1917, Ramanujan got contracted with tuberculosis. His condition though improved significantly and he returned to India in the year 1919. Ramanujan passed away the following year on April 26, 1920, in Kumbakonam. He left behind 3 notebooks and a bundle of pages which was also known as the “lost notebook”. The bundle contained several unpublished results of mathematics that were continued to be studied and verified by different mathematicians for a long time post his death.

Conclusion

India has produced various scholars in different fields. One of such legendaries is Srinivasa Ramanujan who made an astonishing contribution to the mathematical analysis, infinite series, and number theory. He also introduced several equations and formulas. The Ramanujan theta and Ramanujan Prime discovered by S. Ramanujan has been inspiring various researchers for further research and development on the subject. Thus, by celebrating National Mathematics Day on the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan, we would pay tribute to this legend and would also be able to sustain the mathematical culture of India.