About this stamp
On the Stamp
An elderly, smiling Gandhi in his round spectacles against an orange sky, with a small figure at work behind him. The saying reads “स्वच्छता जब भीतरी और बाहरी रहती है तब वह ईश्वरमयता को पहुँचाती है”: when there is both inner and outer cleanliness, it approaches godliness.
Gandhi held cleanliness to be essential for physical and mental well-being and for a healthy environment. He lamented that people kept clean personal habits but did not care about public hygiene, and believed that the nation could not develop without clean and healthy surroundings.
The First Circular Stamps of Independent India
India Post issued seven stamps on 2 October 2018 to mark the start of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. They were the first circular stamps issued in independent India, and each shows one side of Gandhi’s life with one of his sayings in Hindi, signed “मो. क. गांधी”. Sankha Samanta designed the stamps and the miniature sheet, and the brochure text was written by Dr Amarpreet Duggal. India Security Press, Nashik printed 8 lakh of each stamp and 2 lakh miniature sheets.
The values are ₹5, ₹12, ₹20, ₹22, two of ₹25 and ₹41, which add up to the ₹150 of the miniature sheet.
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