“Another aspect of good governance is honesty and transparency,” PM Modi said. A perception had developed in this country that government could not function without scandals. Before 2014, we used to hear talk of multi-crore scams, Modi said, but many good governance initiatives during our government have dispelled these apprehensions.
The Prime Minister said that institutions play an important role in making any government powerful. Malviya established many such institutions during his lifetime where national personalities were formed. He said, “The whole world knows about Kashi Hindu University. He founded Rishikula Brahmacharya Ashram in Rishikesh, Bharathi Bhavan Library in Prayagraj and Sanatan Dharma Mahavidyalaya in Lahore. Malviyaji dedicated many nation building institutions to the country.
Prime Minister Modi said that following in the footsteps of Malviya, his government has created a separate ministry of cooperation and created several institutions to boost development. “The foundation stone of the WHO Global Center for Traditional Medicine was laid in Jamnagar and the Indian Institute of Millets Research has also been established,” he said. PM Modi said, “India has come together to reflect on global issues. Energy.” Recently, Global Bio-Fuel Alliance, International Solar Alliance was also created and India-West Asia Economic Corridor was also launched… India is becoming the creator of many institutions of national and international importance.
PM Modi said that despite being an English language scholar, Malviya was a strong advocate of Indian languages and their use for official purposes. The Prime Minister said that his government is implementing a National Education Policy that gives priority to Indian languages and higher education courses are now also taught in the mother tongue. “It is sad that the country had to wait 75 years for this work,” he said.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur and Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and other dignitaries also participated in the program organized at Vigyan Bhavan here to mark the 162nd birth anniversary of Mahamana Malviya. These bilingual works (English and Hindi) run to around 4,000 pages in 11 volumes, a collection of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya’s writings and speeches collected from all corners of the country. These volumes include his unpublished letters, articles and lectures including memoirs, editorial content of the Hindi weekly ‘Abhyudaya’ started by him in the year 1907, articles, pamphlets and booklets written by him from time to time.
It includes all his speeches in the Legislative Councils of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh between 1903 and 1910, statements made before the Royal Commission introducing various bills in the Imperial Legislative Council between 1910 and 1920. Includes speeches, letters, articles and speeches written before and after the establishment of the Kashi Hindu University and a diary written by him between 1923 and 1925.
Various documents written and spoken by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya were researched and compiled by the Mahaman Malavi Mission, an organization dedicated to propagating the ideals and values of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya of Maham. A dedicated team of this mission under the leadership of noted journalist Ram Bahadur Rai has worked on the original literature of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya without changing the language and text of all these works. These books are published by the Publications Department under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.