The National Salt Satyagraha Memorial (NSSM) is a project of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, advised by a High Level Dandi Memorial Committee, co-ordinated and implemented by IIT Bombay in association with an International Design Team. The project was announced in 2005 by the then Honorable Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh on the 75th anniversary of the 1930 Dandi March, one of the most significant movements in contemporary Indian political history.