DU set to take out 4 km long Tiranga Yatra with selfie points on Aug 10
India Today
Delhi University (DU) is set to take out a 4 km long Tiranga Yatra with selfie points on August 10 as a part of the 'Har Ghar Tiranga Abhiyan'.
After PM Narendra Modi's appeal to people along with educational institutions to take part in the Tiranga Yatra, Delhi University is organising various programmes during the 'Azaadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav'. DU PRO Anoop Lather said that in this regard, DU will be organising a Tiranga Yatra on August 10 under the 'Har Ghar Tiranga Abhiyan'.
More than 1000 participants including teaching and non-teaching staff and students of DU will take part in this historic Tiranga Yatra and a distance of about 4 kilometers will be covered. This historic Yatra will be led by Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Professor Yogesh Singh.
The organizer of this Yatra, Dean Students’ Welfare (DSW) Professor Pankaj Arora said that the objective of this Tiranga Yatra was to create a sense of patriotism, national pride and belonging in the hearts of the common citizens and especially the university community.
He said that this event would help the young generation, especially the students, to understand the important events related to our freedom struggle and to reconnect the broken threads that helped India became independent on August 15, 1947.
Giving information about the Tiranga Yatra, he said that this Yatra will start at 8 am from the Gandhi Statue at Gate Number 1 of Delhi University and pass through Delhi School of Social Work, Music Faculty, Department of Education, Miranda House, Law Faculty, Hindu College, and will end at Gate Number 1 of the university through St. Stephen's College.
Seven locations have been identified to install the national flag of twenty feet height in the university campus namely the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi School of Economics (DSE), Conference Center and Faculty of Science.
These places have also been marked as selfie points, with the aim of encouraging teachers, students and staff to click pictures and selfies with the tricolor. The university community has been encouraged to click selfies with the national flag and put them as their DP on their WhatsApp and other social media handles.
