Editing India Gate (section)

== Amar Jawan Jyoti ==
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[[File:Amar Javan Jyoti.jpg|thumb|right|241x241px|Amar Jawan Jyoti, beneath the arch of the gate]]
Amar Jawan Jyoti, or the flame of the immortal soldier, is a structure consisting of black marble plinth, with reversed rifle, capped by war helmet, bound by four urns, each with the permanent light (''jyoti'') from compressed natural gas flames,<ref name="gupta, 10dec">{{cite news|last=Gupta|first=Geeta|date=10 June 2012|title=Keeper of the flame|newspaper=Indian Express Archive|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/keeper-of-the-flame/960016/0|access-date=10 April 2014}}</ref> erected under the India gate to commemorate Indian soldiers martyred in the war of the liberation of Bangladesh in December 1971. It was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] on 26 January 1972, the twenty-third Indian Republic Day.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

Since the installation of the Amar Jawan Jyoti, it has served as India's [[tomb of the unknown soldier]].{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} It is staffed around the clock by the Indian armed forces.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} Wreaths are placed at the Amar Jawan Jyoti every Republic Day, [[Vijay Diwas (India)|Vijay Diwas]], and Infantry Day{{Efn|Infantry Day is the day Indian infantry air landed at Srinagar on 27 October 1947 to stop and defeat the Pakistani mercenaries' attack on Jammu and Kashmir.}} by the Prime Minister and the Chiefs of the Armed Forces.<ref name="Goswami,10 April">{{cite news|last=Goswami|first=Col (retd) Manoranjan|date=30 August 2009|title=War memorial|newspaper=Assam Tribune|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=aug3009/edit3|url-status=dead|access-date=10 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413143631/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=aug3009/edit3|archive-date=13 April 2014}}</ref>

On 21 January 2022 the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate was merged with the Amar Jawan Jyoti at the National War Memorial.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Bose|first=Joydeep|date=2022-01-21|title=In historic move, Amar Jawan Jyoti merged with National War Memorial flame|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-historic-move-amar-jawan-jyoti-merged-with-national-war-memorial-flame-101642759893068.html|access-date=2022-01-23|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref>