♦ National Education Day is celebrated annually on November 11 to honour the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a prominent visionary, freedom fighter, scholar, and the first Education Minister of Independent India.

♦ In 2008, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (now known as the Ministry of Education) designated November 11 as National Education Day to honour Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on his birth anniversary.