NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) and MoS PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh held here on Wednesday the 75th Quit India commemoration at Union Capital’s North Block Headquarters, with the administration of a pledge to work for “New India” and accomplish in the next five years up to 2022, an India which is free of terrorism, casteism, corruption, poverty and uncleanliness. Senior officers in the Government of India, including union Secretary Personnel Ajay Mittal, were present on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Jitendra Singh said, it is a unique privilege for all of us that destiny has blessed us to be a part of the government establishment at a time when India observes the 75th year of Quit India movement. It is also yet another privilege, he said, that we are commemorating this occasion in this Conference Hall in North Block which was the seat of power of the British administration in 1942 when the Quit India movement was launched and where, possibly, the British Government might have held some crucial meetings to plan how to demolish the movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi from the August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai. It is again a great moment of vindication for all of us that we are commemorating the virtues of Quit India movement sitting in this capital office complex of North Block, where at one point of time, the Quit India movement must have been denounced in the strongest possible words by the then powers-that-be, he said.
Singh said DoPT has undertaken the crusade against corruption at two levels.