Responding to criticism over the dropping of the hymn \u2018Abide with me\u2019 from \u2018Beating Retreat\u2019 this year<\/a>, government sources said this year being the 75th year of Independence, playing of Indian tunes is considered more appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis year, only Indian origin\/indigenous tunes are on the list,\u201d a government source said on Sunday. \u2018Abide with me\u2019 will not be played this year so as to include the maximum number of Indian tunes, the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the Republic Day parade this year, there will be a total of 16 marching contingents, six from the Army, one each from the Navy and Air Force, four contingents from the Central Armed Police Forces, two from the National Cadet Corps, one from Delhi Police and one from the National Service Scheme, said Major General Alok Kackar, Chief of Staff, Delhi Area, in a briefing on the Army\u2019s participation at the parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation, like last year, this year too, the parade will end at the National Stadium and not go up to the Red Fort, as is usually done, he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 16 marching contingents to take part in Republic Day parade Responding to criticism over the dropping of the hymn \u2018Abide with me\u2019 from \u2018Beating Retreat\u2019 this year, government sources said this year being the 75th year of Independence, playing of Indian tunes is considered more appropriate. \u201cThis year, only Indian origin\/indigenous tunes are on the list,\u201d … Continue reading ** All tunes of Indian origin at Beating Retreat in 75th year of Independence, says Government<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,206,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-defence-services-airlandsea","category-history","category-records-india-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13548,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions\/13548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Republic Day parade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n