On 15th August 2022, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) celebrated the 76^th Independence Day with great fervour and pride. During his address, Dr. Pramod Garg, Executive Director, applauded India’s achievements in the past 75 years and urged everyone to make the thinking independent and take pride in our country’s great heritage. During his address, Dr. Garg highlighted the achievements of THSTI in the last one year especially in the COVID-19 research area such as vaccine development, vaccine effectiveness studies, hospital network studies etc. He also spoke about the regulatory approvals obtained for setting up of Medical Research Centre and also the establishment of vaccine development centre and a new research building in the campus.  Dr. Garg urged the students, faculty, scientists and staff of THSTI to take the lead and contribute in making India a developed nation. Dr. Garg lauded the contributions of THSTI to the nation in Science and Technology (S&T).

School children from Govt. School, Bhankri, Faridabad were invited for the Independence Day celebrations at THSTI who performed group and solo dances on patriotic songs. They also performed a skit highlighting the plights of a girl child from birth to growing up. The skit was very well appreciated.

THSTI organized several events to mark the Independence Day celebrations. As part of Har Ghar Tiranaga campaign, Dr. Garg distributed Indian flags and encouraged everyone to hoist National Tricolour in their premises on 8^th August 2022. The employees of THSTI also carried out a rally for promoting #Har Ghar Tiranga along with students of Govt. School, Bhankri, Faridabad on 12^th August 2022. All the children were given flags and motivated to hoist the flags at their homes.