The University Grants Commission has asked all varsities to organise a pledge-taking ceremony on August 9 to “actualise” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “endeavour” to have a terrorism-free, caste-free, corruption-free, uncleanness-free and poverty-free society in India.
The pledge-taking ceremony will also mark the 75th year of the ‘Quit India Movement’ launched by Mahatma Gandhi against the Imperial Rule on August 9 in 1942.
This comes after the prime minister recently gave call for expelling “filth, corruption, terrorism, casteism and communalism” from India.
The prime minister also appealed to the people to work towards achieving this with similar resolve.
Published 08 August 2017, 21:48 IST