Governor Shekhar Dutt opened an exhibition highlighting about the martyrs and their martyrdom through touch-screen and multimedia at the newly-constructed interpretation hall near the entrance gate of Rajiv Smriti Van and Energy Park. Any citizen can peruse the story of martyrs, their family, education, school and their martyrdom free of cost at the room, informed in an official statement issued here on Monday.
Earlier, the Governor also paid rich tribute to the martyrs by placing wreath at the Shaheed Vatika on the Rajiv Smriti Van premises on Sunday. Chief Secretary Sunil Kumar, DGP Ramniwas, Additional CS NK Agrawal, Director General of Homegaurds Girdhari Nayak, Principal Secretary Dhirendra Sharma, Pawan of IAF and senior police officers also paid tribute to martyrs.
The Shaheed Vatika has been constructed and planted saplings in the memory of martyrs, under the initiative of Governor Dutt. Names of those martyrs in Chhattisgarh, though they might belong to any security forces, have been displayed in the Vatika. Similarly, names of martyrs belonging to Chhattisgarh, but martyred in any part of the country, have also been registered in the list.
To give detailed information to the citizens, especially children, about the martyrs, the Governor inaugurated the multimedia exhibition by pressing the button. Initially, those names who have been martyred in 2013 and details about their martyrdom have been given. Efforts are being made to give institution-wise and year-wise information of security forces. Photographs of martyrs and the name of their educational institutions have also been mentioned in it.
On the occasion, the Governor honoured YK Banjare, a Forest department employee, who had worked for the construction of the Shaheed Vatika with dedication, devotion and loyalty, by presenting him citation. The Governor said that detailed research and study should be done on the huge heritage of cattle, birds, trees, medicinal plants, forest produces etc and information about it should be given to the citizens, especially children.
He said that the multimedia interpretation centre was an effort to link our future with our past. Chief Secretary Sunil Kumar said that this centre, constructed in the memory of martyrs, would be developed as per dreams of the State Governor Shekhar Dutt and Chief Minister Raman Singh and effort would be made that the centre would be developed as a pilgrimage.