Tuesday, August 6, 2013

6th AUGUST - 68th HIROSHIMA DAY REMEMBERED

6TH AUGUST - 68TH HIROSHIMA DAY REMEMBERED
About 1,983 students gathered and took the pledge to work for Peace & Nuclear-free World

Commemorating 68th anniversary of atomic bombing on Hiroshima

About 1,983 NSS volunteers with banners & placards with slogans like, ‘NO MORE HIROSHIMA’, NO BOMB – YES PEACE’, ‘WE WANT BREAD, NOT BOMB’ from 45 colleges of University of Mumbai and SNDT University along with Gandhian workers, peace activists, advocates, journalists & NGOs gathered today, 6th August at Azad Maidan and took the pledge to work for peace and nuclear-free world. Prof. Chitra Lele, NSS Programme Officer of SNDT College of Arts & Commerce for Women, administrated pledge to the entire gathering.

The programme was jointly organized by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and NSS Units of SNDT & Mumbai University to mark the 68th 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.