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The Jammu and Kashmir administration has named 57 schools and roads after martyrs and eminent persons. (Representational image)
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has named 57 schools and roads after martyrs and eminent persons.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has named 57 schools and roads after martyrs and eminent personalities, including Kashmiri Pandit Makhan Lal Bindru of a pharmacy in Srinagar and DSP Mohammad Ayub Pandit, who was shot dead near Jamia Masjid in the same city in 2017. was lynched.
The move is part of the Lt Governor’s administration’s decision to name public places after those who laid down their lives in the “service of the nation”. An order issued by Secretary to the government, General Administration Department, Piyush Singla said, “The approval is given for naming infrastructure assets after the names of martyrs, eminent personalities.”
The Government Girls Higher Secondary School at Khanyar, Srinagar has been named after Deputy Superintendent of Police Mohammad Ayub Pandit.
The 57-year-old Pandit was stripped naked and beaten to death outside Jamia Masjid on June 23, 2017.
The road from Naz to Gonikhan Bazaar in Srinagar city is named after Makhan Lal Bindru, who ran the famous Bindru Pharmacy.
Bindru, 68, was shot on October 5, 2021 by terrorists from close range when he was at his pharmacy in Srinagar’s Iqbal Park area.
The order states that the Government Higher Secondary School at Ghagwal (Kathua) has been named after Major Rohit Kumar.
Major Rohit Kumar and Major Anuj Rajput were on a training flight on September 21, 2021, when their Cheetah helicopter crashed at Shiv Garh Dhar near Patnitop. Both died in the accident.
The government primary school in Shamsabad was named after Inspector Shabbir Ahmad Bhat, who was killed by terrorists in Srinagar.
The Government Higher Secondary in Basantgarh is named after Sub-Inspector Imran Hussain Tak, who was killed during an encounter with terrorists on November 17, 2017, in Srinagar. He was posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakra for his gallantry.
The Government Girls Higher Secondary School in RS Pura is named after Flight Lieutenant Aditya Bal, who along with Wing Commander M Rana, was flying aboard their twin-seater MiG-21 trainer aircraft during a training sortie near Barmer in Rajasthan in July. were killed in the crash. 28, 2022.
There were roads and schools in the name of one ASI, 37 constables of police and CRPF, two head constables, six selection grade constables and five special police officers, according to the LG’s order.
The Divisional Commissioners of Kashmir and Jammu zones have been instructed to personally monitor the renaming of infrastructure and assets in their respective divisions.
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