Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], March 12 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited the Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat on Tuesday, penned his thoughts on ideas and the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.
On March 12, marking the 94th anniversary of the Dandi March that began from the Sabarmati Ashram, PM Modi launched the Rs 1,200 crore Gandhi Ashram Memorial masterplan at Sabarmati in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city and also inaugurated the redeveloped Kochrab ashram at a function on the anniversary of the famous Dandi Yatra, or salt march, taken out by Mahatma Gandhi on March 12, 1930.
The Sabarmati Ashram holds immense significance in Gandhi's life and work.
In the visitors' book, the PM said that the ideas and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi will hold relevance forever.
"The solution to uncountable global challenges is inherited in the social and spiritual outlook of Gandhi. His ideas and philosophy will be relevant forever. We are stepping forward in building a great and developed India with the assimilation of his (Gandhi's) message," the PM wrote.
PM Modi further wrote that the Ashram will continue to impact the lives of people widely as a remarkable center of principles and ideas of Mahatma Gandhi.
"I have confidence that the youth will get inspired by Gandhi's work and his life after the redevelopment of the Sabarmati Ashram," he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the 'Ashram Bhoomi Vandana', a symbolic laying of the foundation stone.
The masterplan unveiled by the PM proposes to restore, conserve, and rebuild about half of the 63 structures that existed in the original ashram that was spread over 120 acres of land on the banks of the Sabarmati River on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. In all, 36 buildings will be restored.
The place that is popularly known as Sabarmati Ashram currently, and is open to the public, covers only 5 acres of this original space. It is managed by the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust (SAPMT). (ANI)
