Mahatma Gandh’is 141st birth anniversary will be celebrated around the world Saturday with a series of programmes.
Canada’s McMaster University will organise the 18th Annual Gandhi Peace Festival at Hamilton City Hall on «The Power of Non-violence».
Various public programmes will also be organised by the
Gandhi Centre, Australia and Gandhi International Institute for Peace, Honolulu, US. The Gandhi Library, Houston, US will also organise various programmes on Gandhi Jayanti.
In India, over 250 universities all over the country would organise several events to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti.
The National Social Service (NSS) cell of the University of Mumbai completed a week-long creative arts competition in which 25,000 students from 180 colleges participated.
University Vice Chancellor Rajan Welukar will inaugurate one day seminar on the theme of «Preservation of Environment». Over 500 NSS volunteers will also take a pledge to work for peace and non-violence at the Vidyapeeth Vidyarthi Bhavan at a function to be presided over by former Mumbai Police Commissioner M.N. Singh.
Engineering and management students of the National Institute of Training in Industrial Engineering will go to various educational institutions, corporate houses and malls and sell 15,000 copies of Gandhis autobiography My Experiments With Truth from 2nd to 10th October.
Students from 490 schools in Kerala’s Thrissur district and students from Maharasthra, and 200 jail inmates from six jails will appear in the Gandhi Peace Examination to be held later this month.
Similarly, the five-day-long fifth International Youth Peace Festival, organised by the Yuvsatta in Chandigarh will conclude on 2nd October.
A Chennai-based NGO, Voice For The Deprived, will conduct a quiz competition among secondary school students Saturday on the life and teachings of Gandhi.