Editor,

Children’s Day is celebrated in India every year with great enthusiasm on the 14th of November. It is celebrated by the teachers and students in the schools and colleges with great passion and excitement. It is celebrated worldwide on November 20 every year. The date was chosen to celebrate childhood. Prior to 1959, Children’s Day was universally celebrated in the month of October. The date, November 20, was chosen as it marks the anniversary of the day in 1959 when the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

Children’s Day was observed on November 20 in India too. But after the demise of our beloved Prime Minister, Shri Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, it has been changed to November 14, the date which marks his birth anniversary. Nehru

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