Modi to attend Dayanand Saraswati's 192nd birth anniv event

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending an event to mark the 192nd birth anniversary of Hindu reformer and Arya Samaj founder Swami Dayanand Saraswati wherein he is expected to address a gathering of students, academicians and Samaj members.
The event, on February 14, is being organised at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium by DAV Management Committee in association with Arya Pradeshik Pratinidhi Sabha and Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, Haryana, in an effort to acknowledge his contribution in introducing the concept of spiritual and value-based education.
"Dayanand Saraswati was the foudner of Arya Samaj. We are celebrating his 192nd birthday and the event is titled as 'Nayi Disha Naya Sankalp'. We are looking for new ways to approach the current changes in the country," DAV CMC president Poonam Suri told PTI.

"When Arya Samaj was formed in 1875, it was formed as a reformist movement...At that time the requirement of the country and the society was different. So the motive behind forming that was different but today things have changed. How to accommodate to that change is what we are looking froward to," he said.
The event will be attended by over 50,000 students and teachers from 800 educational institutions run by DAV group and around 15,000 Arya Samaj members.
"So far the education system is purely job oriented but we also need to focus on making our youth good men and women and leaders in various professional spheres," he said.

The two-hour-long event will have cultural programmes and chess competition for students and alumni of DAV.