Gandhi’s teachings immortal, relevant at any time, says Naidu

Ahmedabad, June 24 (PTI): Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said Gandhian teachings are relevant at any point of time and need to be followed especially in the view of growing westernisation of our culture and conflicts in public life.

He was speaking after dedicating 100 volumes of the ‘Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi’, published in English by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, to the Sabarmati Ashram at a function here in the presence of several eminent Gandhian scholars. The minister further said efforts would be taken to bring out the volumes of this work in other Indian languages in the coming days so that it reaches out to more number of people. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi consist of his works as he spoke and wrote, beginning with the year 1884 till his assassination in 1948. The volumes were first published between 1956 and 1994. They were subsequently converted into electronic version in 2015 as part of an MoU signed between the publications division and Gujarat Vidyapeeth, a deemed university set up by Mahatma Gandhi, in September 2011.

They are hosted on Gandhi Heritage Portal, which is maintained by Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust with the support of Union Ministry of Culture. The publications division then began printing the 100 volumes of the collected works in English.