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6TH AUGUST - HIROSHIMA DAY REMEMBERED About 3,152 Students participated in the Peace Rally and took the pledge to work for Peace & Nuclear-free World
Students
carrying a huge banner depicting the devastation effects of nuclear
attack and warning about future nuclear threat.
About 3,152 students from 78
colleges, social activists, and peace-loving citizens in the
city marched from Azad Maidan to Hutatma Chowk on Hiroshima Day,
today.
Peace march was jointed organized
by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and NSS Units of SNDT & Mumbai
University to mark the 66th anniversary of the devastation of
Hiroshima & Nagasaki with a deadly atomic attack by America
during World War II & to join hands with millions of people of
the world in their prayers to make a nuclear-free world.
The devastation had such an effect that one
lakh sixty thousand people were killed in the atom bombing
leaving several thousands crippled. The after effects of the
bombing and radiation claimed over three lakhs lives over the
years. Peace Rally was lead by the students carrying a huge banner depicting the devastating effects of nuclear attack and warning about future nuclear threat. Students were wearing aprons and Gandhi-caps with slogans like ‘No More Hiroshima’, ‘Save Mother-Earth’. NSS Volunteers from various colleges were also carrying play-cards and banners depicting slogans like ‘NO-BOMB, YES-PEACE’, and “We want to grow up, not to blow up”. Peace rally was started from Azad Maidan and concluded at Hutatma Chowk where a Pledge was taken by about 3,152 to work for peace & a nuclear-free world. Dr. Lalita Jogad, and Shri Atul Salunke, NSS Co-ordinators of SNDT & Mumbai University administrated the Pledge to the entire gathering.
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