A full-dress rehearsal of the Republic Day parade at Kartavya Path on Tuesday
New Delhi:
President Droupadi Murmu will lead the nation in celebrating the seventy fifth Republic Day from Kartavya Path in Delhi immediately. French President Emmanuel Macron is the chief visitor on the parade, set to showcase India’s cultural range, and navy prowess.
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Primarily based on the dual themes of ‘Viksit Bharat’ and ‘Bharat – Loktantra Ki Matruka’, this 12 months’s parade will see the participation of 13,000 particular friends.
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For the primary time ever, the parade shall be heralded by over 100 girls artists enjoying Indian musical devices. The parade would begin with the music of Sankh, Naadswaram, Nagada, and so forth. to be performed by these girls artists.
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It’s going to additionally see the primary participation of an all-women tri-service contingent marching down the Kartavya Path. Girls pilots can even enthral the viewers throughout the flypast, representing “Nari Shakti”. The contingents of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) can even include solely girls personnel.
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The Republic Day parade will begin at 10,30 am and run for a length of 90 minutes. The ceremony will begin with the go to of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Nationwide Warfare Memorial.
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Kartavya Path shall be witness to a march previous by a mixed band and marching contingent of the French armed forces. A 30-member band contingent shall be headed by Captain Khourda, which shall be adopted by a 90-member marching contingent, led by Captain Noel. A multirole tanker plane and two Rafale fighter jets of the French Air and Area Power will fly above the contingents.
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The primary Indian Military contingent main the mechanised column shall be of the 61 Cavalry, led by Main Yashdeep Ahlawat. Raised in 1953, the 61 Cavalry is the one serving energetic Horsed Cavalry Regiment on this planet.
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The Indian Navy contingent will include 144 women and men Agniveers, led by Lt Prajwal M as Contingent Commander and Lt Mudita Goyal, Lt Sharvani Supreiya, and Lt Devika H as Platoon Commanders. It will likely be adopted by the naval tableau, depicting the themes ‘Nari Shakti’ and ‘Sea Energy Throughout the Oceans By Indigenisation’.
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The Indian Air Power (IAF) will comprise 144 airmen and 4 officers, led by Squadron Chief Rashmi Thakur. Squadron Leaders Sumita Yadav and Pratiti Ahluwalia, and Flight Lieutenant Kirti Rohil will march previous as supernumerary officers behind the Contingent Commander.
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Many important techniques and applied sciences developed by the Defence Analysis and Improvement Organisation (DRDO) shall be showcased throughout the parade. The DRDO tableau relies on the theme ‘Girls energy in defending the nation by offering the defence defend in all 5 dimensions, particularly land, air, sea, cyber, and house’.
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The contingents of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and Delhi Police shall be led by girls personnel. Border Safety Power marching contingent shall be headed by Assistant Commandant Monika Lakra; Central Industrial Safety Power by Assistant Commandant Tanmayee Mohanty; Central Reserve Police Power by Assistant Commandant Megha Nair; Indo-Tibetan Border Police by Assistant Commandant Moniya Sharma; Sashastra Seema Bal by Deputy Commandant Nancy Singla; and Delhi Police by Extra Deputy Commissioner of Police Shweta Okay Sugathan.