From shawls, Gamocha, Assamese Sarai, Japi to statuettes, gifts received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the last year are being auctioned to raise funds for the center's program to clean the River Ganga. An exhibition of the artifacts was inaugurated by Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel at Delhi's National Gallery of Modern Art on Saturday.
More than 2,772 mementos will be auctioned on www.pmmementos.gov.in from Saturday till October 2.
Mr Patel said around500 mementos are on display under an exhibition titled "Smriti Chinh"for the people at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) from 11 am till 8pm.
"The displayed mementos will be changed every week. The gift items including paintings, memento, sculptures, shawls, pagri, jackets, and traditional musical instruments are displayed artistically in the administrative wing of the NGMA," he said.
The lowest base priceof the mementos is Rs. 200 and the highest is Rs. 2.5 lakh, Mr Patel said.
"Continuing apractice I have always believed in! All those gifts and mementos I havereceived in the last one year would be getting auctioned starting today till3rd October. These mementoes would be on display at the NGMA near India Gate inDelhi," the prime minister tweeted with a link to the e-auction website.
A letter will be sentfrom to top 20 bidders complimenting them for their contribution towards theNamami Gange Project, Prahlad Singh Patel said.
The last such auctionwas held in January this year.
