Earlier this week, the government of India issued a notice initiating the renaming of all the government schools in Jammu and Kashmir, to honour and give tribunal to the martyr soldiers and officials of the Indian Army, Central Reserve Police and the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Further, the state authorities concerned were notified to formulate a committee at the district sector to implement the formalities due for the process and initiate orders for the honourable course of action. The representatives from different committees such as the Indian Army, the SSP, ADC, DPO, or AC Panchayat are assessed to join in. The optimum list is to be submitted by the Deputy commissioners by the 5 of August.
The deputy commissioners of the various district were asked to locate the public residencies and schools under government care. Which are under the administration of the respective officials, to attain the entitlement of the heroes who were led to “veergati”.
The districts included: Jammu, Kathua, Doda, Poonch, Ramban, Samba, Kishtwar, Rajouri, Udhampur, and Reasi.
In a recent tweet, the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stated, “ Since the revocation of Article 370 the union territory has undergone real democracy, development and governance in the last two years.”
He further showed appreciation towards the PMO, by saying that PMO’S decision has led to boost India’s unity and integrity.
Recently, 17 state-run schools of Punjab were also to be renamed after the freedom fighters. The schools were named in the district of Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Hoshiarpur, SBS Nagar, Tarn Taran, Amritsar, SAS Nagar and Fatehgarh Sahib.
