Maulana Abul Kalam Azad strove to promote value-based education: Venkaiah Naidu
Azad was the country's first education minister and every year his contribution to establish the education foundation in India is recognised by celebrating his birthday as National Education Day on November 11.
On National Education Day, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu paid tribute to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on his birth anniversary and said that he will always be remembered for his invaluable role in the country's freedom struggle.
The Vice President tweeted that, "My tributes to great freedom fighter, nationalist and educationist, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on his birth anniversary. "He strove to promote national unity and value-based education. He will always be remembered for his invaluable role in India's freedom struggle."
Azad was the country's first education minister and every year his contribution to establishing the education foundation in India is recognised by celebrating his birthday as National Education Day on November 11. The first National Education Day was celebrated on November 11, 2008.
On September 11, 2002, the Ministry of HRD had announced that "The Ministry has decided to commemorate the birthday of this great son of India by recalling his contribution to the cause of education in India. November 11 every year, from 2008 onwards, will be celebrated as the National Education Day, with declaring it as a holiday."
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad served as the first education minister of independent India from August 15, 1947, to February 2, 1958. He was also a freedom fighter, a scholar and a senior political leader of Jawaharlal Nehru’s government.
The day is also seen as an occasion to remember Azad's contribution in laying the foundations of the education system in an independent India and evaluating and improving the country's current performance in the field.
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