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Children splashing through water in the rain, from a prize-winning painting, on the ₹5 stamp.
Children’s Day 2015
India Post issued two stamps, ₹5 and ₹25, and a ₹30 miniature sheet for Children’s Day, 14 November 2015, the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru, “Chacha Nehru”, who believed children were the future of the nation. The Department of Posts held a nationwide stamp design competition on the theme “A Day in the Rains”, which drew 38,200 entries. The stamps and sheet were designed by Sankha Samanta from the prize-winning paintings of Yamini K, Kimaya Gupta and Rohit Gupta; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 0.6 million of each and 0.2 million sheets.
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