SHILLONG: Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said on Wednesday he would take up the matter of including the history of local freedom fighters like U Tirot Sing, Pa Togan Sangma and U Kiang Nangbah in textbooks.
“I will keep your suggestions in mind and I will convey your feelings to the HRD Ministry,” the MoS for Water Resources River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation and Parliamentary Affairs said while responding to queries of media persons here on Wednesday.
Earlier while addressing the Sankalp se Siddhi (New India-We Resolve to Make) programme at All Saints Hall, the minister said U Tirot Sing and others from the North East played an important role in the country’s freedom struggle.
“Shillong is an important historical place and the British often came here whenever there were movements in the plain belt of the country,” he added as he expressed his happiness that Sankalp se Siddhi campaign is concluding in Shillong.
The programme in the city is a five-day mega exhibition cum seminar on ‘March of Parliamentary Democracy and the Constitution of India’.
Terming garbage, poverty, corruption, terrorism, casteism and communalism as “diseases hindering the progress of the country”, the minister said the Prime Minister’s Sankalp se Siddhi is the mission to end these vices and build a New India by 2022, when the country will celebrate its 75th year of independence.
Meghwal also administered the pledge of ‘Sankalp se Siddhi’ to the gathering. The song and drama division of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry staged a cultural programme to mark the occasion.
