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Snow peaks above the dark mouth of the Gangotri Glacier at Gomukh, with the Commonwealth emblem and the words “Commonwealth Day” in Hindi and English, on a ₹2 stamp.
Gomukh, Gangotri Glacier
India Post issued two stamps on 14 March 1983, ₹1 and ₹2, for Commonwealth Day. It was the first of the special Commonwealth issues that the Heads of Government agreed at Melbourne in 1981 to make every five years, to make the Commonwealth better known and to support its Fund for Technical Cooperation. Gomukh, the snout of the Gangotri Glacier in the Garhwal Himalaya, is where the Bhagirathi, the source stream of the Ganga, comes out of the ice.
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