Contribution of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad After the Post-Independent India

After hitting up that most awaiting day 15th august 1947, Azad was a bit sad witnessing the horrible partisan of India. 

• He hadn’t left a single stone unturned by going to each affected border area lines of Bengal, Punjab, and Pakistan encouraging peace and calm to remain in India and shouldn’t fear for their safety and security.
• He got education ministry in Nehru’s government and in that he played an important and remarkable role in framing national policies for education. He once stated that “We must not for a moment forget, it is a birthright of every individual to receive at least the basic education without which he cannot fully discharge his duties as a citizen”. 
• Since childhood, he was very much inclined towards education and skill-gaining. After being elected twice in Lok Sabha, he gave thrust to universal primary education, compulsory education for all children up to 14, girls’ education, vocational training, and adult literacy. 
• We all must hear about University Grants Commission (UGC) under which all graduates did their graduation is the one established under his tenure being education minister. 
  Along with this, under his leadership, India witnessed its first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) as IIT Kharagpur.  
• He focused more on education foundation as India had just been released from the Western Cage, promoting education among Indians became the first priority to Azad therefore he laid the foundation of  Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) which is today one of the most prominent universities in India. 
  Apart from this, Writing is something he always enjoys doing- in the last year of his life, Abul wrote ‘India wins Freedom’, published in 1959. 
• In 1989, the central government set up Maulana Azad Education Foundation, a ministry of minorities that provides that fellowship after his name. 
• National Education Day is celebrated on 11 November every year on his birth anniversary to celebrate his vision for educating every individual irrespective of their religion. 
• He left us with all his immortal work behind in 1958. For his selfless service, he received Bharat Ratna in 1992.

Conclusion:

His heart always beats for India’s unity, always supported secular India, and never wanted separate electorates based on religion. Maulana Abul was truly an Indian who keep on working his entire life for India’s welfare despite being criticized by many Muslims. It’s not always about the main actor, the role of the person playing behind the scenes also adds bricks to the building of a nation.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, an Independent India’s first education minister was born on 11 November 1888 in Mecca and is popularly known as Maulana Azad. The word maulana refers to master and Azad was his pen name. After the 1857 revolt, his family moved to mecca and then returned in 1898 to Calcutta, India.  As the youngest congress, Azad gained a lot of popularity. The Gandhian approach is sole to his philosophies. His great mind and personality make him a successful journalist and politician. In 1911, he also started a magazine named Al-Hilal which becomes widely popular among people because of its revolutionary and patriotic articles. Apart from his intellect and thinking, he was a keen supporter of Hindu-Muslim Unity.

Azad never supported the politics of divide and rule, he criticized the Britisher’s racial policies. In certain phases influence of revolutionaries like Aurobindo Ghose and Shyam Sundar Chakraborty can also be seen in Azad philosophies. In India, the birth anniversary of Maunala Abul kalam Azad is celebrated as National education day. In 1992, he received the noble prize posthumously.