Postage Stamp on 100 Years of First Visit of Mahatma Gandhi to Odisha

Shri Sanjay Dhotre,Minister of State for Education, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology on March 23, 2021 released a Commemorative Postage Stamp on 100 Years of First Visit of Mahatma Gandhi to Odisha.

  • This Commemorative Postage Stamp celebrates an important event of Indian History which is the first visit of Mahatma Gandhi to Odisha on 23rd March, 1921.
  • It energized the Non-Cooperation movement and strengthened the cause of freedom struggle.
  • During the visit of Mahatma Gandhi, large section of youth participated in the movement and women folk regularly spun Charkha and propagated the use of Khadi.
  • Clothes of foreign origin were abandoned. Such was the magical presence of Mahatma Gandhi that Odisha woke up from slumber and plunged itself in the national movement.

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