The Amar Jawan Jyoti, or the ‘eternal flame’, at India Gate was on Friday merged with the National War Memorial. The Amar Jawan Jyoti, which had been burning since December 1971, will be put out and people can pay their respects at the National War Memorial instead. The Amar Jawan Jyoti was constructed as a memorial for fallen soldiers after India defeated Pakistan in the 1971 war and was inaugurated by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on January 26, 1972. On Friday afternoon, a part of the Amar Jawan Jyoti flame was taken and merged with the flame of the National War Memorial 400 metres away. Chief of Integrated Defence Staff BR Krishna presided over the ceremony, the military said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on February 25, 2019, inaugurated the NWM, where names of 25,942 soldiers have been inscribed in golden letters on granite tablets.