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All India War Memorial

 India Gate also known as All India War


Memorial.
 Located on Rajpath (Kingsway)
 Situated in the heart of New Delhi,
 28°36′46.31″N 77°13′45.5″E
 Established 10 February 1921
 Unveiled12 February 1933
 Designed by Edwin Lutyens
 India Gate is a memorial to 70,000 soldiers of
the British Indian Army who died in the
period 1914–21 in the First World War
 13,300servicemen's names inscribed
 Imperial War Graves Commission (I.W.G.C),
established December 1917
 Major tourist attracted area.
 People from many countries
 Best visiting time after sunset or 5.30pm to
9.30pm
 No monument fees
 Car parking
 The Republic Day Parade starts
from Rashtrapati Bhavan and passes around
the India Gate.
 Accommodation
 Food : Local, Restaurant, Online
 Good atmosphere.
 Best recreation area (family, friends, etc).
 Side benches
 Toy car for kids
 Photographers
 Local shops for mini purchase
 Railway station : Nizamuddin Railway
station
 Metro station :Mandi House and Khan
Market
 Airport : New Delhi Airport
 Bus : private and government
 Auto
 Cabs
India Gate Delhi
illuminated
with indian
Flag Colours
 Thecornice of the India Gate is inscribed
with the Imperial suns while both sides of the
arch have INDIA, flanked by the dates
MCMXIV (1914 left) and MCMXIX (1919 right).
 TOTHE DEAD OF THE INDIAN ARMIES WHO
FELL AND ARE HONOURED IN FRANCE AND
FLANDERS MESOPOTAMIA AND PERSIA EAST
AFRICA GALLIPOLI AND ELSEWHERE IN THE
NEAR AND THE FAR-EAST AND IN SACRED
MEMORY ALSO OF THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE
HERE RECORDED AND WHO FELL IN INDIA OR
THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER AND DURING
THE THIRD AFGHAN WAR
 13,300 servicemen's names inscribed
 Sculptures on sides of the India Gate
 The flame of the immortal soldier
 The wake Liberation of Bangladesh in
December 1971 to commemorate Indian
soldiers killed in the defence of their country
 inaugurated by the then Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi on 26 January 1972, the
23rd Republic Day.
 India's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
 Rashtrapati Bhavan with Amar Jawan Jyoti in
foreground
 constructed by the Government of India
 honour to Armed Forces.
 Established 25 February 2019
 Location: India Gate Circle, New Delhi, India
 Coordinates 28°36′46″N 77°13′59″E
 Names of martyrs killed in wars in 1947–48, 1961
(Goa), 1962 (China), 1965, 1971, 1987
(Siachen), 1987-88 (Sri Lanka), 1999 (Kargil), and
other operations such as Operation Rakshak, are
inscribed on the memorial walls.
 A War Museum
 The
innermost structure of the National War
Memorial
 The
innermost structure of the National War
Memorial
 RashtrapatiBhawan
 Parliament House
 North and South Block
 Qutab Minar
 Jantar Mantar
 Gurudwara Bangla Sahib
 National Gallery of Modern Art
 National Museum of Natural History
 Over crowd
 Unsafe
 Pickpocket thieves
 Heavy traffic
 No visitors data available
 Plastic issue
 Needed informative signage
 Proper waste dustbins
 Improve the number of securities

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