Why National Education Day Is Celebrated

Every year on 11th November, India celebrates National Education Day. It is celebrated on the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of India.  Maulana Azad was born in Mecca in 1988, his father was a scholar from Delhi who moved to Mecca during Sepoy Mutiny. After returning to India in 1890 with his family, Azad was home-schooled, he mastered several languages, including Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Bengali, Arabic, and English.  At the age of 12, Moulana Azad was running a library, a reading room, and a debating society, at 14 he was teaching a class of students twice his age and by 16 he was publishing a poetical journal and was the editor of a weekly.  He was married at the age of 13 to a young Muslim girl, Zulaikha Begum.  He rose to prominence as a journalist criticizing the British Raj and supporting Indian nationalism. Later he became the leader of the Khilafat Movement which brought in close contact with Mahatma Gandhi. During this period, Azad became an enthusiastic supporter of Gandhi’s ideas of non-violent civil disobedience and worked to organise the non-cooperation movement in protest of the 1919 Rowlatt Acts.  He became the youngest person to serve as the President of the Indian National Congress at the age of 35.   Azad was the most prominent Muslim leader to oppose the creation of Pakistan. Azad remained a close confidant, supporter and advisor to prime minister Nehru. Under his leadership, the first Indian Institute of Technology was established along with the University Grants Commission. He also laid emphasis on the development of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Faculty of Technology of the Delhi University. He founded the Sangeet Natak Akademi (1953), Sahitya Akademi (1954) and Lalit Kala Akademi (1954) to promote education and culture in the country.  Maulana Abul Kalam Azad served the country from 1947 to 1958 as the First Minister of Education in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet. He died due to a heart attack on 22 February 1958.  Numerous institutions across India have been named in his honour – some of them are the Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi; Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology in Bhopal;  Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad; Maulana Azad Centre for Elementary and Social Education (MACESE Delhi University); Maulana Azad College; Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies; and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, in Kolkata; Maulana Azad library in the Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh and Maulana Azad Stadium in Jammu. His residence is now the Maulana Azad Museum.   In 1992, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna for his contribution as a freedom fighter and educationist.

#NationalEducationDay #EducationDay #Education

🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE

For More Updates:

English: https://www.mynation.com/

Hindi: https://hindi.mynation.com

Like us on Facebook: Facebook: MyNationEn

Follow us on Twitter:  Twitter: MyNation

Follow us on Instagram: Instagram: mynationen

➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports, tech and much more.

• #news_politics
• #mynation
• #news
• #india
• #politics
• #bjp
• #congress
• #delhi
• #mumbai
• #kolkata
• #chennai
• #national_education_day
• #education
• #education_day