What is the relevance of celebrating Children’s Day on Nehru’s birthday?

            Everyone loves to be in the company of children. Their energy, cheerfulness and innocence are infectious, and we feel like growing younger and being one among them. Children’s Day in India is celebrated on November 14, on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.

            Jawaharlal Nehru loved children. He once said, ‘I may not have time for adults, but I have enough time for children’. His Letters from a Father to his Daughter, written when he was spending time in Allahabad Jail in 1928, is a testimony to his vision for bringing up children in a warm and proactive relationship with nature. He considered children as the future of the nation. Fondly called Chachaji, Nehru worked admirably for the education, progress and welfare of the children of India.

           Children’s Day should increase awareness regarding the rights, care and education of children. The day is an occasion to remember and strive to be like the great statesman, who loved children as much as he loved his country.

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