Amar Jawan Jyoti:
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Amar Jawan Jyoti is an Indian memorial conceptualised and constructed after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and inaugurated on 26 January 1972.
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It was located near India Gate.
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It was the national war memorial in India until February 2019, when the new National War Memorial and its own immortal flame was inaugurated and lit.
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On 21 January 2022, the older flame was merged with the newer one at National War Memorial.
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It will be replaced by a grand statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
National War Memorial:
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The National War Memorial in India is a national monument built to honour and remember soldiers of the Indian military who fought in armed conflicts of independent India.
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Inaugurated in 2019, it is around 400 meters from India Gate.
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The layout of the structure comprises four concentric circles, named:
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the “Amar Chakra” or Circle of Immortality,
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the “Veerta Chakra” or Circle of Bravery,
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the “Tyag Chakra” or Circle of Sacrifice and
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the “Rakshak Chakra” or Circle of Protection.
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The proposal for a National War Memorial was first made in the 1960s.
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The memorial is dedicated to soldiers who laid down their lives defending the nation during the Sino-Indian war in 1962, Indo-Pak wars in 1947, 1965 and 1971, Indian Peace Keeping Force Operations in Sri Lanka and in the Kargil Conflict in 1999.
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Flame from Amar Jawan Jyoti was merged here.
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The National War Memorial also commemorates the soldiers who participated and made supreme sacrifices in United Nations peace-keeping missions, Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief (HADR) operations, counterinsurgency operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Operations (LICO).
India Gate:
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India Gate was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and was unveiled by Lord Irwin in 1931.
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It was built to honour the soldiers of British India who died from 1914 to 1921.