Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Residential School

• 06 Jan 2024

Why in News?

On 1st January 2024, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inaugurated the building of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Residential Hostel in Kaulagarh, Dehradun.

Key Points

• The foundation stone of this building was laid by CM Dhami last year, which was built at a cost of Rs 4,09,40,000.
  • The residential hostel and stock of the facilities being provided to the children in the hostel were inspected.
  • The officials of the Education Department were instructed to provide better-quality resources to the children in the hostels.
  • Residential arrangements have been made for 100 children in the hostel.
• On this occasion, CM announced that the hostels opened in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, built for the education of daughters of weaker, deprived, and resourceless sections and 11 schools adjacent to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose hostel will be upgraded to the intermediate level.
• 13 such hostels are running in the state for the education of weak, backward, orphan, and resource-less children, in which free arrangements have been made for 1000 children.
• 40 Kasturba Gandhi Residential Girls Hostels are being run separately for girls, in all facilities are being provided free of cost.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

• He was a fierce nationalist, whose defiant patriotism made him one of the greatest freedom fighters in Indian history.
• He was born on 23rd January 1897, in Cuttack, Orissa Division, Bengal Province.
  • His Jayanti is celebrated as 'Parakram Diwas'.
• He was credited with setting up the Indian Army as a separate entity from the British Indian Army - which helped to propel the freedom struggle.