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  • 8/16/2023
The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has officially been renamed as the Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society with effect from August 14. The Chairperson of the executive council of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Nripendra Misra informed the media about the update. The vice chairman of the museum's executive council, A Surya Prakash also took to X and posted about the update.

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00:00 The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, or NMML, has officially been renamed as the Prime
00:06 Minister's Museum and Library Society, with effect from August 14.
00:12 The chairperson of the Executive Council of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Nirpendra
00:16 Mishra, informed the media about the update.
00:20 The vice-chairman of the museum's executive council, A. Surya Prakash, also took to X
00:24 and posted about the update.
00:26 His post read, "Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, or NMML, is now Prime Minister's
00:31 Museum and Library, or PMML, Society, with effect from August 14, 2023, in tune with
00:38 the democratization and diversification of the remit of the Society.
00:43 Happy Independence Day."
00:44 Surya Prakash also tagged Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh and Ministry of Culture in his post.
00:49 The post also had a picture of the Teen Murti House.
00:52 The name has been formalized on India's 77th Independence Day.
00:56 In mid-June, a special meeting of the NMML Society was held.
01:00 It was resolved to change its name to PMML Society.
01:04 The renaming had prompted sharp reactions from Congress.
01:07 The Teen Murti Bhavan had served as the official residence of India's first Prime Minister,
01:11 Jawaharlal Nehru.
01:12 Sources said that some administrative processes were needed to finally put an official stamp
01:17 on the new name and the final approval came a few days ago.
01:21 It was decided by NMML authorities to make August 14 the date for the renaming to come
01:26 into effect.
01:27 The Culture Ministry had said that the special meeting of the NMML Society in June was presided
01:32 over by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who is the Vice President of the Society.
01:37 The Ministry said that in his address at the meeting, Rajnath Singh had welcomed the proposal
01:42 for change in the name since in its new form, the institution exhibits the contributions
01:46 of all Prime Ministers from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi and the responses to various
01:52 challenges faced by them.
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