Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat paid tribute to freedom fighter Raja Vijay Singh Gujjar on the occasion of his martyrdom day in a programme held at Government Inter College Kunja Bahadurpur in Haridwar on Saturday. He said several institutions, roads and scholarships would be renamed after the martyr in sync with the State Government’s commitment to hold him in grateful remembrance.
CM Rawat said that Raja Vijay Singh had played a significant role in awakening the people of the imperative of winning freedom of the country. Singh’s contribution in the nation’s freedom movement will be incorporated in the history book at higher secondary level education, he announced while adding that the college would soon be renamed after him by way of remembering his supreme sacrifice for the posterity.
The State Government will observe Singh’s martyrdom day each year. A children garden will be set up in the college. This aside, meritorious students from Other Backward Classes will be given scholarships in the name of Raja Vijay Singh, he further said.
He said that a veterinary hospital will be opened in Kunja Bahadurpur bearing the name of the martyr. Besides, the road connecting Bhagwanpur to Jhabreda will be renamed after Raja Vijay Singh. The beautified pond located at Kunja Bahadurpur will be named after another martyr Kalyan Singh.
CM also said that around 75 per cent payment of sugarcane farmers will be paid by the end of November this year. Soil health cards will be prepared in four districts till 2017. Bhagwanpur MlA Mamta Rakesh announced that she would give money for the construction of one class room and mercury light in the school under MlA local area development fund. Others present on the occasion were Khanpur MlA Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion, Jhabreda MlA Hari Das and former MlA Ambrish Kumar.