Lok Sabha Speaker releases the Lok Sabha Calendar 2019

STAFF REPORTER / NEW DELHI

Lok Sabha Speaker Mrs Sumitra Mahajan on Monday released the Lok Sabha Calendar 2019 at the Annual General Meeting of the Indian Parliamentary Group (IPG) in Parliament House Annexe.

Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha Dr. M. Thambi Durai; Members of Parliament; former Members of Parliament; and other dignitaries graced the event. Secretaries-General of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Mrs. Snehlata Shrivastava and Mr Desh Deepak Verma, respectively were also present.

Releasing the Calendar, Mrs Mahajan referred to her initiative to prepare theme based Calendars in Lok Sabha Secretariat. She said that in consonance with this tradition, the Secretariat has brought out a Calendar for 2019 that depicts the life and messages of Mahatma Gandhi. She hoped that this Calendar would spread a positive message and provide a right direction for a better world. Reading out the messages shown on the leaves of the Calendar, Smt. Mahajan hoped that this endeavour of Lok Sabha Secretariat would be appreciated by all.

To showcase the different shades of our treasured Parliamentary Heritage, a beginning was made in the year 1999 to bring out the Lok Sabha Calendar every year. The first Calendar was conceptualized on the theme “Mural Paintings in Parliament House”. Since then, Calendars have been brought out on various themes highlighting Portraits and Statues of National Leaders, Presidential Processions, Important places in Parliament House, Parliament Library Building, Parliament Museum, Workforce of Parliament Complex, Visitors to this Supreme Institution and noble inscriptions in Parliament House Building.