Knit India Movement team arrives
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Imphal, March 22 2013:
A 24-member 2nd Knit India Movement commemoration March team arrived in Imphal yesterday.
Knit India Cycle members and Manipur State Organising Committee of 150th Death Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda organized a reception ceremony for the commemoration march team which includes 20 male and four female members at Jina Hall, North AOC here on Friday.
The organizers presented the team with simple gifts at the ceremony.
It was also attended by Padmashree Awardee Th Naridas and A Brajakumar Sharma, a retired professor of DM College of Science.
The team will visit None, Awangkhul and Nungba along National Highway-53 .
This legendary mission Knit India Movement was led by none other than, internationally acclaimed social worker and reformer Shri Baba Amte.
Before the mission, he gave a clarion call to the youth of the nation.
The call was so passionate, no youth who loved his motherland, could sit comfortably in the cosy surroundings of his or her house.
Around 125 youth responded positively to this call.
And they started a mission which later came to be known as "Bharat Jodo Abhiyan" (Knit India Movement).
This was way back in 1985.It was a bicycle march from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
The bicycle march ended.
People went back to their respective places.
But there was no feeling of completeness.
And this man was again on a mission.
This time, he gave the clarion call to march on bicycles from the east to the west, from Itanagar to Okha (Gujarat) .
The North East was thoroughly combed.
The bicycle march was in the North East for two long months.
It was in 1988-89.There were 100 cyclists in the second march.
The key objectives of Bharat Jodo Movement were national integration and creating environmental awareness.