Lok Sabha Question No. 2900 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-08-03
Subject: Commemorative Stamps
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: PARAYAMPARANBIL KUTTAPPAN BIJU

2900. SHRI P.K. BIJU:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  proposals  received  by  the  Government for  release  of  commemorative postage stamps;
- (b) whether  commemorative  postage  stamp  on  Vallathol  Narayana  Menon  for  his remarkable contribution in literature is under consideration of the Government;
- (c) if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the  time  by  which  the  said  commemorative  postage  stamp  on  Vallathol  Narayana Menon is likely to be released?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (IC) OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI MANOJ SINHA)

- (a) The statement regarding details of proposals received by the Government for release of commemorative postage stamps is at Annexure-I.
- (b) No Madam.
- (c) & (d) Does not arise in view of (b) above.

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF POSTS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2900 TO BE ANSWERED ON 3 RD  AUGUST, 2016

## COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS

## The statement regarding details of proposals received by the Government for release of commemorative postage stamps

|   S. No. | Name of the proposal pending for consideration for release of Commemorative Postage Stamps             |
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|        1 | Sant Narhari Maharaj                                                                                   |
|        2 | 125 th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, Centenary of Komagata Maru and centenary of Begum Akthar |
|        3 | Birth Centenary of P.T.Chacko                                                                          |
|        4 | Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy                                                                                 |
|        5 | 145 th Birth Anniversary of Kavi Muddana                                                               |
|        6 | Birth Centenary of Acharya Konda Laxman Bapuji                                                         |
|        7 | Gangadhar Meher                                                                                        |
|        8 | Chandra Nath Sharma                                                                                    |
|        9 | Shri Vishwasrao Dattajirao Chowgule                                                                    |
|       10 | Siyaram Sharan Gupt                                                                                    |
|       11 | Emperor Vikramaditya                                                                                   |
|       12 | Pandit Ramnarayan Shastri and Shri Shailendra Nath Srivastava                                          |
|       13 | Thakur Niranjan Singh                                                                                  |
|       14 | Shri K. Ram Ganesh Gadkari                                                                             |
|       15 | Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade Ji                                                                       |
|       16 | 150 th Birth anniversary of Dr. (Smt) Anandi Gopal Joshi                                               |
|       17 | Nannayya Bhatta and Draksharamam Temple                                                                |
|       18 | Dr. R.K.Srikantan                                                                                      |
|       19 | Centenary celebration of Dr.Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin                                                |
|       20 | Shaheed Mahendra Karma                                                                                 |
|       21 | 400 th Birth centenary of Prince Dara Shikoh                                                           |
|       22 | Birth Centenary of Amar Shaheed Sridev Suman                                                           |
|       23 | Urdu Shayar Sayed Ali Muhamad Shad Azimabadi                                                           |
|       24 | Agar Chand Nahata and Bhanwar Lal Nahata                                                               |
|       25 | Lala Kedar Nath Sehgal                                                                                 |
|       26 | Raje Visweshwar Rao Maharaj                                                                            |
|       27 | Krantiveer Chapekar Bandhu                                                                             |
|       28 | Jhala Manna                                                                                            |
|       29 | C. Abdul Hakeem                                                                                        |
|       30 | Kisan Mahadeo Veer                                                                                     |
|       31 | Ranada Ukil                                                                                            |
|       32 | Sahodharan Ayyappan                                                                                    |
|       33 | Olimpio Coleto Rodrigues                                                                               |
|       34 | M.Krishnan                                                                                             |
|       35 | Anandilall Pod dar                                                                                     |
|       36 | Justice J.C.Shah                                                                                       |
|       37 | Rani Gaidinliu                                                                                         |
|       38 | A.P.C. Veerabahu                                                                                       |
|       39 | Shri K.R. Radhakrishnan and Dr.K.L.Rao                                                                 |
|       40 | Birth Centenary of Krishan Chander                                                                     |

|   41 | Durga Malla                                                                                               |
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|   42 | Centenary year of Shri S.B.Velankar                                                                       |
|   43 | Govind Das, Shrimannarayan Agrawal and Shri Kamalnayan Bajaj                                              |
|   44 | Mahamati Prannath                                                                                         |
|   45 | Krishna Ballabh Sahay                                                                                     |
|   46 | 125 th birth anniversary of Mehr Chand, Former Chief Justice of India & Prime Minister of Jammu & Kashmir |
|   47 | Dada Saheb Phalke                                                                                         |
|   48 | Hirvijay Suri Shreeji                                                                                     |
|   49 | Shri Nagi Reddi                                                                                           |
|   50 | Kaka Hathrasi                                                                                             |
|   51 | Sant Sohirobanath Ambiye Tercentenary Celebration (1714-2014)                                             |
|   52 | Maulana Pandit Basheer Uddin Kadri Shahjahanpuri                                                          |
|   53 | Birth Centenary of Shri Bhisham Sahni                                                                     |
|   54 | Wali, Aurangabadi                                                                                         |
|   55 | Shaheed Basanta Kumar Biswas, Shaheed Master Amir Chand, Shaheed Avadh Behari and Shaheed Bhai BalmoKand  |
|   56 | Lala Lajpat Rai                                                                                           |
|   57 | V. Nagaiah                                                                                                |
|   58 | 200 th Birth Anniversary of Tatya Tope                                                                    |
|   59 | Sant Sevalal Maharaj                                                                                      |
|   60 | Gaurishankar Govardhan Joshi 'DHUMKETU'                                                                   |
|   61 | Bhagwan Shri Parashuram                                                                                   |
|   62 | Jadaguru Dr. Sri Shivarathri Rajendra Mahaswamiji, Sri Suttur Math                                        |
|   63 | Sixteeth Birthday Function of Jeer, Sri Ahobila Mutt                                                      |
|   64 | Centenary year of Shri Hirji Bhojraj & Sons Kutchi Visha Oswal Jain Chhatralaya                           |
|   65 | Silver Jubilee celebrations of Konkan Railway                                                             |
|   66 | Golden Jubilee of Handloom Export Promotion Council (HEPC)                                                |
|   67 | India's Participation in First World War                                                                  |
|   68 | Centenary Year of Marwari Sarvajanik Pustkalaya                                                           |
|   69 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati Paropakarini Sabha                                                               |
|   70 | Golden Jubilee of National Dairy Development Board                                                        |
|   71 | Diamond Jubilee of ICICI                                                                                  |
|   72 | Golden Jubilee of IDBI                                                                                    |
|   73 | Mangalyan- 2014                                                                                           |
|   74 | Golden Jubilee of First Indian Ascent of Mt Everest:1965                                                  |
|   75 | 100 years of Publication of Jain Prakash                                                                  |
|   76 | Golden Jubilee of Barauni Refinery of IOL                                                                 |
|   77 | 50 years of Delhi High Court                                                                              |
|   78 | St. James School, Kolkata                                                                                 |
|   79 | Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore                                                                     |
|   80 | Centenary year of Asutosh College, Kolkata                                                                |
|   81 | Diamond Jubilee celebration of Netarhat Vidyalaya                                                         |
|   82 | Platinum Jubilee celebration of College of Engineering Trivandrum                                         |
|   83 | Shri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya Shatabdi Mahotsav                                                           |
|   84 | Golden Jubilee of Postal Training Centre, Mysore and 100 years of Karanji Mansion, Mysore                 |

|   85 | 150 years of St. Mary's ICSE Campus, Mazagaon                                               |
|------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   86 | Centenary Celebration of Foundation of Dayalbagh & Education in Dayalbagh                   |
|   87 | Centenary celebration of Women's Christian College                                          |
|   88 | Golden Jubilee Celebration of Agricultural College and Research Institute, Madurai          |
|   89 | Diamond Jubilee celebration of Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women               |
|   90 | Centenary celebration of Chopsni Vidhyalay                                                  |
|   91 | Centenary celebration of Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine                               |
|   92 | Centenary year of Sangli Shikshan Sanstha's City High School                                |
|   93 | Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Atoms in the service of Nation                              |
|   94 | Langat Singh Mahavidhyalay                                                                  |
|   95 | Godavari Pushkarams, 2015(A.P)                                                              |
|   96 | 500 years of Chandrapur city                                                                |
|   97 | 400 years of Underground Water Resources, Burhanpur                                         |
|   98 | 500 th Foundation year of Bhandasar Jain Mandir, Rajasthan                                  |
|   99 | 300 years of Farrukhabad City                                                               |
|  100 | Human Organ Donation Awareness Programme                                                    |
|  101 | 1000 th week of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge                                                |
|  102 | Exposition of Sacred Relice of Saint Francis Xavier                                         |
|  103 | Centenary Celebration of Martyrs                                                            |
|  104 | NCD Awareness Day                                                                           |
|  105 | Make in India                                                                               |
|  106 | Golden Jubilee of Jaladuta Yatra                                                            |
|  107 | Vasantotsav                                                                                 |
|  108 | Fateh Diwas (Victory Day)                                                                   |
|  109 | 500 th anniversary of Shri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu coming to Vrindavan                 |
|  110 | Caves of Meghalaya                                                                          |
|  111 | Dwarkadish Temple                                                                           |
|  112 | Shree Siddhivinayak Ganapati Temple, Mumbai                                                 |
|  113 | Art, craft, Culture of the North East                                                       |
|  114 | Metric Man                                                                                  |
|  115 | Sage Yajnavalkya                                                                            |
|  116 | 150 th Birth Anniversary of Manishi Panchanan Barma                                         |
|  117 | Pandit Karuppan                                                                             |
|  118 | Shri M.V. Arunachalam                                                                       |
|  119 | Martyr Maniram Dewan                                                                        |
|  120 | 150 th Birth Anniversary of Shrimad Rajchandraji                                            |
|  121 | Ramanujacharya                                                                              |
|  122 | 125 Years of Kolhapur Railway Station                                                       |
|  123 | Centenary Celebration of Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Bengaluru |
|  124 | Golden Jubilee of Gujarat Refinery                                                          |
|  125 | Sesquicentennial celebration of St. Mary's Convent Inter College, Allahabad                 |
|  126 | Centenary celebrations of University of Mysore                                              |
|  128 | Auckland House School, Shimla                                                               |
|  129 | Banaras Hindu University                                                                    |
|  130 | International Year of Pulses                                                                |

| 131     | Maharaja Jassa Singh Ramgarhia                                                                          |
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| 132     | Dr. Shivmangal Singh Suman                                                                              |
| 133     | Prof. Ram Nath Shastri                                                                                  |
| 134     | Shaheed Raghunath Mohanty and Dibakar Parida                                                            |
| 135     | Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee                                                                             |
| 136     | Blood Donation                                                                                          |
| 137     | Lord Dhanvantri                                                                                         |
| 138     | Hindutva                                                                                                |
| 139     | Govind Narayan Misra, Durga Prasad Misra, Balmukund Gupt, Ayodhya Prasad Khatri and Yogesh Chandra Basu |
| 140     | Lady Hardinge Medical College                                                                           |
| 141     | 400 th Anniversary of St. Andrews Parish                                                                |
| 142     | Epilepsy                                                                                                |
| 143     | Jaludatta Yatra ( ISKCON)                                                                               |
| 144     | K. Balachander                                                                                          |
| 145     | Bhandashah Jain Temple                                                                                  |
| 146     | Dr. Sant Prasad Nigam                                                                                   |
| 147     | Moulana Pandit Bashher uddin Kadri                                                                      |
| 148     | Maharana Pratap on his 475 th Birth Anniversary                                                         |
| 149     | Birth Centenary of 108 Acharya Vimalsagar Ji Muniraj                                                    |
| 150     | Ramachandra Pandurang Vaidya alias Dada Vaidya                                                          |
| 151     | 100 years of Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Kasaragod                             |
| 152     | R. G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata                                                           |
| 153     | 150 years of Balmer Lawrie & Co Ltd                                                                     |
| 154     | Acharya Bodhidharma and the Efflorescence of Zen                                                        |
| 155     | Swami Athurdas                                                                                          |
| 156     | Quin centenary Jubilee of Luz Church, Chennai                                                           |
| 157     | Centenary Year of Medical Conferences in India                                                          |
| 158     | SNDT Women's University                                                                                 |
| 159     | Mathew M. Kuzhiveli                                                                                     |
| 160     | Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha                                                                     |
| 161     | Saheed General Arun Sreedhar Vaidya                                                                     |
| 162     | K.V.Puttappa                                                                                            |
| 163     | Kalluri Chandramouli, freedom fighter                                                                   |
| 164     | P.D.Himatsingka                                                                                         |
| 165     | Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy and Budda Vengal Reddy                                                       |
| 166     | Kavi Shri Chandrakumvar Baratwal                                                                        |
| 167     | Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra                                                                            |
| 168     | Birth Centenary of Yugkavi Pandit Dina Nath Nadim                                                       |
| 169     | Basaman Mama                                                                                            |
| 170     | Writers of different languages                                                                          |
| 171     | 30 th Foundation day of Department of Biotechnology                                                     |
| 172     | Maharaja Ahirban                                                                                        |
| 173     | Historical Monument of Golgumbaz                                                                        |
| 174 175 | celebration of centenary year of Century Club, Bengaluru Babu Hardas Laxman Nagarkar                    |
| 176     | Marshal Nesamony                                                                                        |

| 177     | Millennium birth anniversary of Acharya Abinavagupt                          |
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| 178     | Late Lala Thunthee (Thantimal)                                               |
| 179     | Shri R.V. Krishna Ayyar                                                      |
| 180     | Mahatma Hansraj                                                              |
| 181     | Dada Jivanlal Jairamdas                                                      |
| 182     | Vidyasagar Ji Maharaj on the occasion of 50 th year of his Munidisksha       |
| 183     | Govindnarayan Mishra                                                         |
| 184     | Maharshi Sudharshan Bhagwan                                                  |
| 185     | St. George's Cathedral, Chennai                                              |
| 186     | Jai Jawan Jai Kisan                                                          |
| 187     | Diamond Jubilee Celebration AIIMS                                            |
| 188     | Pandit Chintamani Sharma JI                                                  |
| 189     | Sreedhar Mahadev Joshi                                                       |
| 190     | Silver Jubilee celebration of Indian Coast Guard                             |
| 191     | Miss Mascrene                                                                |
| 192     | Patna Golf Club on the occasion of centenary celebration                     |
| 193     | Brahmasree Subhananda Gurudev                                                |
| 194     | Bombay Philatelic Bureau                                                     |
| 195     | Archbhishop Benedict Mar Gregorious Birth Centenary                          |
| 196     | Digambar Jain 108 Feet Bhagwan Rushabh Dev                                   |
| 197     | Raja Todarmal                                                                |
| 198     | Bhuvanesh Singh Bhuwan                                                       |
| 199     | Dr. Choithram Partabhrai Gidwani                                             |
| 200     | World Heritage Sites in India                                                |
| 201     | centenary year of Queen Mary's Technical Institute                           |
| 202     | Golden Jubilee Year of Automative Research Association of India, Pune (ARAI) |
| 203     | 150 years of formation of Sacred Heart Church Parish at Idaikattur           |
| 204     | Lions Club International                                                     |
| 205     | Centenary Year of Satyagraha                                                 |
| 206     | Saint Narhari Maharaj                                                        |
| 207     | India-Armenia Joint Issue                                                    |
| 208     | Centenary year of the Rice Memorial Church                                   |
| 209     | Yogiraj Baba Gambhirnath Ji Maharaj                                          |
| 210     | Shri Banarasi Dass Gupta                                                     |
| 211     | Shri K R Narayanan                                                           |
| 212     | Pandit Taranath                                                              |
| 213     | Utkala Deepika                                                               |
| 214     | Kamal Nayan Sharma                                                           |
| 215     | Narsingh Leela an old dance form of Braj                                     |
| 216     | Ramanand Chattopadhyaya                                                      |
| 217     | 150 years of Ritchie Dry Dock, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited             |
| 218     | Hislop College', Nagpur                                                      |
| 219     | completion of 50 years of Gir Wildlife Sanctuary                             |
| 220     | Brahmasree Subhananda Gurudev on his birth Anniversary                       |
| 221     | 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress (IAC 2016)                       |
| 222 223 | C. Kesavan Dr. John Mitthai                                                  |

|   224 | 750 th birth anniversary of Sri Vedanta Desikan                           |
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|   225 | Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Kummari Molla, Tarigonda Vengamamba |
|   226 | Deeksha Bhoomi of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar                                      |
|   227 | 100 th birth anniversary of Prof. Balwant Gargi                           |
|   228 | Balaji Raipurkar                                                          |
|   229 | Council of Scientific & Industrial Research                               |

|   S. No. | Proposals received and approved for the year 2015 and 2016   |
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|        1 | Acharya Vimal Sagar                                          |
|        2 | India-PNG Joint Issue                                        |
|        3 | Saint Pipaji Maharaj                                         |
|        4 | D. Devaraj Urs                                               |
|        5 | Bhupesh Gupta                                                |
|        6 | India-Portugal Joint Issue                                   |
|        7 | O. P. Jindal                                                 |
|        8 | Induction of C-130 (Air Force)                               |
|        9 | 3 Garhwal Rifles                                             |
|       10 | Guru Gobind Singh Ji                                         |
|       11 | India Armenia Joint Issue                                    |

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