National Education Day Is Celebrated.

 National Education Day Is Celebrated.

 National Education Day is celebrated every year on 11 November all over India. 11 November is also the birthday of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ji. The tradition of celebrating Abul Kalam Jayanti as National Education Day in 2008 by Ministry of Human Resource Development Started Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a great freedom fighter and education scholar. After independence, he was appointed as the first Education Minister of independent India.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born on 11 November 1888 in Mecca City, Saudi Arabia. Maulana Azad had played an important role in the promotion of education in India and in reviving the quiet education system. He continued to hold the post of Education Minister from 1947 to 1958 and played an important role in strengthening our education system with his experience and efficiency.

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 Apart from being a national leader, Azad was also a talented poet and journalist of high quality who was awarded the country's highest civilian honor in 1992, although he died in 1958. Maulana Azad, who adopted a style of simple living and high thought, was a true benefactor of India inspired by Gandhian ideology.

He was always opposed to the partition of India and Pakistan. Nation leaders like Raja Rammohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Dayanand, Arvind Gandhi, Ravindra Nath Tagore were instrumental in strengthening the education system of India.

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About Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's descendants were Afghans, and his mother Arabi and his father Babur came to India and settled in Bengal. A few years later, due to Feridding's rebellion, he left India and made Mecca his place of refuge, where Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born in 1888.

Abdul Kalam Azad's real name was Abdul Kalam Ghulam Mohiuddin. Kalam's father was a teacher with money, from whom he gained knowledge of hanging and philosophy line mathematics, mathematics and algebra.

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Abul Kalam Azad remained with the revolutionary leaders of Iraq and Turkey for many years. When he returned to India, he met Arvind Ghosh and Shyamsunder Chakraborty on the request of these people. Kalam will join the freedom struggle of India. In a few years, Abul Kalam Azad started working with senior Congress leaders on the plan for a comprehensive freedom struggle.

 During this time, he also inspired Muslim youths and religious organizations to join this struggle for purity of India.

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 He worked to strengthen the spirit of Hindu-Muslim unity throughout his life, Azad worked to reinforce the spirit of patriotism in the Muslim sect through Al-Hilal Urdu Patra. The British government was not happy with such activities. The British did not want that Hindu Muslims should ever be one and they should strengthen the demand of a nation, with a view to prohibiting al-hilal, Maulana Abul Kalam was also stopped by the Salt Satyagraha in 1930. During the time, why was he locked in Pune jail for supporting Gandhiji?

Their contribution in the field of education.

Despite being a knowledgeable teacher of Urdu and Persian himself, he insisted on mixing English in place of Urdu with personal education and in the new education system adopted after independence, he emphasized on the combination of education and Sanskrit. It was due to his efforts that Sangeet Natak and Lalit Kala Academy were formed. But at that time, Maulana Azad was an advocate of providing compulsory child education to all the children of all classes in India till the age of 14 years.

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 The University Grant Commission was established in 1956 under the tenure of Abul Kalam, who laid emphasis on technical and women's education in the early years of independence. He had done important work in this direction by forming the Indian Institute of Technology, while presiding over the Central Education Board, to say education and to flourish from both the state levels.

Such great educationist Maulana Abul Kalam Azad died on 22 February 1958. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna for his memorable contribution in the field of education. And since 2008, his birthday is celebrated as National Education Day.

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