Rajasthan: 15 schools to be named after martyrs

Jaipur, Mar 9: The Rajasthan government has issued an order to name 15 school runs by the state government after martyrs. The state education minister said that honouring the maryrs was one of the top priorities of the Congress-led government in Rajasthan.

Rajasthan education minister Govind Singh Dotasara said this on Thursday, as per an Amar Ujala report.

He further said that the state government salutes the maryrs who laid down their lives for the country, adding that Ashok Gehlot-let regime is sensitive towards the families of the martyrs.

The minister said that three schools in Churu, three in Nagore and three Jhunjnu district would be named after the martyrs. While in Alwar and Sikar, two school each would be re-named. In Jaisalmer and Jodhpur, one school in each of the districts would be named after martyrs.

He said that the files considering this proposal had not moved forward during the previous government, the Congress government now has moved the file and schools would be re-named after martyrs soon.