New Delhi: The 73rd Republic Day of India came to an end today. Like the year of defeat, this year also Beating the Retreat was organized on 29 January at Vijay Chowk. Where the band of Delhi Police along with the bands of the three armies of India performed grandly with their melodious tune. President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh along with the chiefs of the three services as well as top officers of the armies were present in this ceremony.
At the same time, the most exciting highlight of this event was 1000 indigenously made drones. Who won the hearts of the people present thereby creating new artwork in the sky. With this, India has become the fourth country after China, Russia, and the UK to present such artwork using such a large number of drones.
About 26 melodies are played by the leading brands of the three armies of India at Beating the Retreat. The program organized at Vijay Chowk started at 15 minutes around 5 o’clock. Many melodious tunes were played in this program which lasted for two hours. Before this, the artwork was shown through laser on the walls located at Vijay Chowk.
Start-Up, Boatlab Dynamics was given an initial seed fund of Rs One crore rupees for R&D by the Department of Science & Technology (DST) and subsequently Rs Rs 2.5 crore for scale-up and commercialization by Technology Development Board to develop first its kind technological project in India.
“The success of this project is a perfect example of inter-Ministerial coordination wherein everyone from senior officials to the last executing official of MoD, DST TDB, and IIT Delhi all worked together to make this program a success and supporting the company in demonstrating the accomplishment of Atmanirbhar Bharat Mission,”
