Air India's Gandhi Jayanti tribute: Maharaja paints tails with Mahatma

Air India has paid its tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary by painting his im on Airbus A320. im is reportedly 11 feet long and 4.9 feet wide, depicted with colour white on red trail of aircraft. painted aircraft will fly on Delhi-Mumbai route today and is expected to take its first flight at 1 pm.

Along with Gandhi's im on national carrier, company also organized a cleaning drive with all employees. 

One step ahead

Dhananjay Kumar, spokesperson for Air India reportedly believes that this step by company has made National carrier one step ahead in paying tribute to leader on his 150th Jayanti.

Ashwani Lohani, CMD along with or executives participated in cleaning drive as a part of Swachhta Mission by government. This was also on occasion of 150th birth anniversary, Air India employees along with ir families came out on streets of Air India colony Vasant Vihar to collect litter. 

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Indian Railways paid tributes to Bapu

unique tributes of national transports do t end with Air India, even Indian Railways' Central Railway Zone paid ir tributes by painting Mahatma Gandhi's picture against  backdrop of National Tricolor. re are a total of 22 locomotives prepared, out of which  work on 15 locomotives was already completed by September 25. painted trains are currently running on Mumbai-Pune and Mumbai-Konkan routes. Reportedly, work for tribute had been in process for last two months. 

Moreover, Indian Railway is also celebrating today as 'Community Day'.

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