1. Mahatma Gandhiji was given the responsibility to start the Civil Disobedience Movement.

2. Gandhiji made a plan to begin civil disobedience by starting a Satyagraha to protest the Salt Tax laid by the British. Hence, he decided to go to Dandi village and break the Salt Law.

3. The message of Gandhiji’s Satyagraha was delivered to people on the evening of 11th March 1930 in the assembly of about 1000 people.

4. It was also announced that even if the British arrest the satyagraha is, they should firmly maintain non-violence against the government.

5. On 12th March, 1930, Gandhiji along with 78 satyagrahis set-off for Dandi Yatra from
Ahmedabad Harijan Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram).

6. This march was 370 km long. It passed from places such as Aslali, Bareja, Nadiad, Anand, Boriavi, Ras, Jambusar, Bharuch, Surat, Navsari as well as several other small and large ragions.

7. Gandhiji and other satyagrahis explained people the reason for Civil Disobedience Movement and breaking the Salt Law.

8. Dandi Yatra created a wonderful effect in creating astonishing faith, unity and consciousness among people.

9. Gandhiji along with his colleagues and supporters reached Dandi on 5th April, 1930 after walking 24 days.

10. On the early morning of 6th April, Gandhiji broke the Salt Law by picking a handful of – salt from the sea-coast.

11. Shri Mahadevbhai Desai compared this event as ‘Mahabhiniskraman’ the great renunciation.

12. Journalists, photographers, writers and historians of India as well as of abroad visited and published reports about such a great march in their newspapers and booklets.

13. The Dandi Yatra which started from Sabarmati Ashram was praised heavily. It shook the British Empire.

14. To suppress the yatra, the British police beat the satyagrahais mercilessly. They conducted lathi charge, arrest, shooting and oppression on women and children, but people continued fearlessly.

15. During Dandi March, numerous constructive programmes like boycott of foreign clothes, prohibition of liquor, removal of untouchability, Hindu-Muslim unity and oaths to undertake social services, etc. were held.

16. Agitation done under the leadership of Abdul Ghaffar Khan (also known as Frontier Gandhi) as Vadala, Bombay.

17. Struggle against foreign liquor under the leadership of Kasturba Gandhi was suppressed in Bombay, Gharsana in Surat and in Viramgam during the Salt Law agitation.

18. Renunciation of government services, as well as removal of children from government schools, were the highlighted incidents during these movements.