As India gears up to celebrate country’s former prime minister Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru’s birthday as Children’s Day on 14 November. India used to celebrate Children’s Day in India on 20th November every year before 1956 as the United Nations, in 1954, had declared the day as Universal Children’s Day. But, after the death of India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, a resolution was passed in the parliament unanimously to honour to Pt. Nehru declaring his the day of his birth anniversary, November 14 as National Children’s Day.
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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru:
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence activist, and subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. Nehru’s vision for the development of youth helped in setting up the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). He also initiated the establishment of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM).
Born: 14 November 1889, PrayagrajDied: 27 May 1964, New Delhi