Dandi March to Mark 75 Years of Independence

  • The Prime Minister flagged off a commemorative ‘Dandi March’ on 12th March, from a ground beside the Abhay Ghat, the resting place of late Prime Minister Morarji Desai near the Sabarmati Ashram.
  • It was done to launch the celebrations of the 75th year of Independence - ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’. 

2021 DANDI MARCH

  • The padyatra is being undertaken by 81 marchers from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to Dandi in Navsaria. 
  • It is a journey of 386 km which will end after 25 days, on 5th April 2021.
  • Descendants of those who walked the Salt March (in 1930) will be honoured.
  • Marchers will traverse the route in memory of the 78 who accompanied Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 from Ahmedabad to Dandi and two others who had joined mid-route.
  • Big events will be organised at six places associated with Gandhi. 
  • Cultural programmes are planned at 21 spots on the route at the nightly stops for the walkers.

2005 DANDI MARCH

  • In 2005, the then Congress-led UPA government at the Centre had initiated a similar yatra to commemorate the 75 years of the Dadni March.
  • It was flagged by the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi from Sabarmati Ashram on March 12. 
  • For Dandi, the then UPA government had planned a library dedicated to Gandhian studies and erecting statues of the 81 marchers. 
  • The project, called the National Salt Satyagraha Memorial, is almost complete.

1930 DANDI MARCH

  • The Dandi March, also known as the Salt March and the Dandi Satyagraha was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
  • The march lasted from 12th March, 1930 to 6th April, 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly.
  • On 12th March, Gandhiji set out from Sabarmati with 78 followers on a 241-mile march to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea. 
  • In Dandi, Gandhi and his supporters were to defy British policy by making salt from seawater.

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