Observance of 71st Constitution Day

Constitution Day (or Samvidhan Divas), also known as National Law Day, is celebrated in India on 26 November every year to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India. On 26 November 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted the Constitution of India, and it came into effect on 26 January 1950.

The Government of India declared 26 November as Constitution Day on 19 November 2015 by a gazette notification. The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi made the declaration on 11 October 2015 while laying the foundation stone of the B. R. Ambedkar's Statue of Equality memorial in Mumbai.

71st Constitution Day

(26.11.2020) 

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On the concluding day of the 80th All India Presiding Officers’ Conference at Kevadia, Gujarat, all delegates at the conference will recite the Preamble to the Constitution of India under the leadership of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi.

All officers and employees of different Government Offices throughout the country will remain present in their respective offices at 11:00AM  to partake in the reading of the Preamble. 

Films Division is screening four documentary films on the adoption of Constitution of India by the Union of India on 26th November, 1949, on FD website and YouTube Channel.

The films being streamed are 

• Our Constitution 

(12 Min./English/1950) which depicts the various clauses of India’s Constitution, 

• We The People of India 

(21 Min./English/1986) that traces framing of the Constitution, 

• The Preamble 

(5 Min./ English/1973), an animation on the Preamble to the Constitution of India, and 

• Babasaheb Ambedkar 

(75 Min./English/ 1991), a biographical film on Dr BR Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Constitution of India.

The documentaries will be streamed on www.filmsdivision.org/DocumentaryoftheWeek 

and https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmsDivision on 26th November, 2020 for 24 hours.