17-Aug-2025

Balangir(By Tejraj Mishra, PRO),Under the guidance of Shri Prashant Kumar Sahu, Commandant 189 Bn CRPF, the flag hoisting ceremony was held in the presence of the Corps personnel on the auspicious occasion of Independence Day on 15/08/2025 at 189 Bn CRPF Campus Shantipada, Balangir. The Har Dhar Tiranga campaign was launched by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India in the year 2022 as a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. It is a nationwide campaign being run under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture. Its objective is to encourage people to hoist the national flag at government institutions as well as at their homes, so that Indias independence can be celebrated symbolically. It is a celebration of shared identity, freedom and unity bound by the spirit of the tricolor. To make this nationwide campaign Har Dhar Tiranga Abhiyan successful, the companies of the battalion deployed in Manipur along with the officers and personnel of Headquarters 189 Battalion Central Reserve Police Force organized a Tiranga Rally / Yatra on bicycle, motorcycle and foot from 02/08/2025 to 15/08/2025 with the children, youth and common citizens of Balangir to make them aware. Along with this, detailed information was given about the importance of Tiranga Yatra by taking out Tiranga Yatra with the students and teachers of various schools of Balangir like R.R. Colony High School Larkipali, Little Flower School Balangir and the children and their caretakers of Parvati Giri Bal Niketan (orphanage).
Along with this, in the same sequence, on 16/08/2025, a seminar was organized for the youth of Balangir and the personnel of the unit, in which everyone was explained in detail about the measures to avoid drug abuse and get rid of it.
On this occasion, Shri Sarwar Khan, Deputy Commandant 189 Battalion K.R.P.B. while addressing all the students present there said that all of you children are the heritage of the future, tomorrow will be in your name. You people should know that our country became free after being a slave of the British for almost 200 years and we got independence after a long struggle and sacrifice of our brave fighters in getting this freedom. Being a responsible citizen of an independent self-governing country, the entire responsibility of taking our country forward and maintaining the glory of the tricolor will be on your shoulders.