Mason’s daughter from Tirunelveli to witness Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi

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G. Iniga of Sankar Higher Secondary School, Sankar Nagar adjacent   Tirunelveli.

G. Iniga of Sankar Higher Secondary School, Sankar Nagar adjacent Tirunelveli. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

On January 26, a pupil from a agrarian inheritance successful the territory volition beryllium successful New Delhi to instrumentality portion successful the Republic Day celebrations.

G. Iniga, girl of mason Ganesan, is simply a Class VIII pupil astatine Sankar Higher Secondary School, Sankar Nagar. She volition beryllium 1 among the privileged gathering arsenic she won this enviable spot done her penning skills astir a braveheart who laid down his beingness for the nation.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD), successful relation with the Ministry of Education and MyGov had launched ‘Project Veer Gatha’ nether Gallantry Awards Portal (GAP) successful 2021 with the purpose to disseminate the details of acts of bravery of the gallantry awardees and the beingness stories of these bravehearts among the students truthful arsenic to rise the tone of patriotism.

Interdisciplinary and art-integrated activities similar poem, paragraph, essay, painting, multimedia presentation, abbreviated video are activities to beryllium submitted by idiosyncratic students arsenic the task to recreate achievements of warriors of India oregon gallantry grant winners, subject strategies adopted by the bravehearts done originative mediums, connecting to modern contexts for inspiration. The task isorganised up of Republic Day celebrations each year.

Veer Gatha has been a phenomenal occurrence and this year, the the Ministry of Defence had organised virtual, face-to-face consciousness programmes and sessions for schools crossed the country.

Ms. Iniga entered the contention by penning an effort connected Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, an Indian service serviceman who posthumously received India’s highest subject decoration of Param Vir Chakra grant for his audacious courageousness during Kargil War 1999. This won her a spot successful the elite radical of 100 students from crossed India who volition beryllium witnessing the Republic Day celebrations successful New Delhi.

“I work astir Manoj Kumar Pandey successful my textbook and collected much accusation astir him for my effort competition. I’m thrilled to beryllium going to New Delhi for the Republic Day celebrations,” says Ms. Iniga, who wants to articulation the Indian Army.

Published - January 22, 2026 09:24 p.m. IST

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