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Amar Jawan Jyoti, which has become the identity of India Gate in the country’s capital Delhi for 50 years, is being shifted from here before the Republic Day. Now this flame will be lit at the National War Memorial instead of India Gate. At 3.30 pm on Friday, its flame will be merged in the flame of the War Memorial itself. According to an officer of the Indian Army, Amar Jawan Jyoti The torch will be brought to the National War Memorial on Friday afternoon. There both the flames will be merged in a ceremony. The ceremony will be presided over by Air Marshal Balabhadra Radha Krishna.India- Amar Jawan Jyoti reminds the martyrs of Pak war
Amar Jawan Jyoti was built in the memory of 3,843 Indian soldiers who were martyred in the 1971 war against Pakistan. It was first lit in 1972. It was inaugurated by the then PM Indira Gandhi on 26 February 1972. The National War Memorial was constructed by the Central Government in 2019. It was built in honor of 26,466 Indian soldiers who have given martyrdom since the country’s independence in 1947. The memorial was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 February 2019. 
Amar Jawan Jyoti is associated with the feelings of ex-servicemen
From Govt. Different types of reactions have come to the fore on the decision to move the Amar Jawan Jyoti from India Gate to the National War Memorial. Many ex-servicemen have also appealed not to be removed, saying it is related to their feelings. December 2021 marks 50 years of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
However, supporters of taking it to the War Memorial say That there already exists a light in the memory of the soldiers. That place was made only to pay respect to the martyrs. Former Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash said in a conversation with an English newspaper that Amar Jawan Jyoti was temporarily installed at India Gate. Now that we have a war memorial of our own, it would be better to take it there.
India Gate Memorial of 84,000 British Indian Soldiers
Let us tell you that the 42 meter high India Gate was constructed by the British Government. It was built by the British Government in the memory of 84,000 Indian soldiers who died on behalf of the British Army in the First World War and the Third Afghan War between 1914-21. The names of those soldiers are also engraved on it.
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