PM Modi, Amit Shah, Mamata Banerjee in 53-member panel to mark Aurobindo birth anniversary

As per the document, the term of the committee starts “with immediate effect” and will be “until further orders”.

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Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose) was a freedom fighter and nationalist leader. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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3 min readNew DelhiDec 25, 2021 04:10 PM IST First published on: Dec 21, 2021 at 11:52 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is heading an extensive 53-member committee that has been set up to mark the 150th birth anniversary of spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo.

Besides the Prime Minister, the committee has Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, two former PMs — Manmohan Singh and HD Deve Gowda — and several cabinet ministers, as per a Gazette notification released by the Ministry of Culture on Tuesday.

As per the document, the term of the committee starts “with immediate effect” and will be “until further orders”. Its mandate is to commemorate the occasion “in a befitting manner” and to provide “policy direction and guidelines for formulation of programmes… at the national and international levels”.

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