National War Memorial inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi in New Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the National War Memorial adjoining the India Gate in New Delhi.

The memorial honours the soldiers who laid down their lives for the country after Independence.

About the National War Memorial:

The memorial includes a central obelisk, an eternal flame and six bronze murals depicting famous battles fought by Indian Army, Air Force and Navy in Veerta Chakra gallery.
16 walls have been constructed in the Tyag Chakra for paying homage to the 25,942 battle casualties and their names have been inscribed on granite tablets arranged in a circular pattern, symbolizing the ancient Indian war formation 'Chakravyuh'.
Rakshak Chakra, the outermost one comprises of rows of more than 600 trees with each tree representing many soldiers who guard the territorial integrity of the nation round the clock.
The National War Memorial will have a new 'eternal flame' and the existing eternal flame at the Amar Jawan Jyoti built in 1972 in honour of soldiers who lost their lives in the 1971 India-Pakistan war, will continue as it is.

India Gate itself is a war memorial built during the British Raj as the All India War Memorial Arch to honour the soldiers who died in the First World War (1914-1918) and the Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919).
But there was no memorial to commemorate the sacrifice of fallen soldiers after independence.
The proposal to set up a National War Memorial had been under consideration since the early 1970s.
The National War Memorial pays tribute to soldiers who laid down their lives defending the nation during the India-China war in 1962, Indo-Pak wars in 1947, 1965 and 1971, Indian Peace Keeping Force Operations in Srilanka and in the Kargil conflict of 1999.