Haryana Government has decided to rename Government College, Nangal Chaudhary (Mahendergarh), as Shaheed Major Satish Dahiya Government College, with immediate effect.
Major Dahiya, of 30 Rashtriya Rifles, had laid down his life during a gunfight with militants at Kralgund in Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, on February 14, 2017.
Notably, the Chief Minister Manohar lal had, during his meeting with Dahiya’s family in his native village of Banihari of Mahendergarh district, announced that Government College, Nangal Chaudhary, would be named after Major Satish Dahiya.