Children's Day is celebrated throughout the country with great enthusiasm and has helped to focus attention on the problems of child welfare. The Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department has been issuing special postage stamps on Children's Day on November 14. In 1970 as well as last year, stamps were brought out depicting children's paintings as their motifs. This time we have not only depicted the child's painting but the entire designing of the stamp and first day cover has been done by children.
The stamp (25P) on the right designed by Rajesh Bhatia depicts "a cat." Tulu Verma has done the First Day Cover design which shows "a lion." Both the child artists are from New Delhi.
The stamp on the left is of the UNICEF. India is a member of UNICEF's 30 nation Executive Board and has contributed to UNICEF's resources since 1949, its contribution totalling over Rs. 12 crores. In addition, people in India buy about ten lakhsUICEF greeting cards each year. placing India first in sales in Asia, 13th worl-wide. These funds are used to purchase equipments in India, provides stipends for training programmes and towards administrative costs. The P & T Department conider it their privilege to highlight the srvices rendered by the UNICEF in Indai by the issue of a commemorative postage stamp on the oc occasion of their 25 years of association with India.
The stamp (25P) design is based on a painting by a child, Amrita Shah of Baroda.
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