The damaged statue of Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda was repaired after the order of Chief Minister Hemant. Deputy Commissioner Ranchi informed Chief Minister Hemant that the maintenance work of Jaipal Singh Munda ji's statue has been completed properly. Also, it has been directed to all the concerned officials that special care should be taken not to receive any such complaint in the future.
A video was shared with the CM that the statue of Jaipal Singh Munda in Ranchi has been badly broken. After the information about the case, the CM directed DC Ranchi to fix the statue of Jaipal Singh Munda.
Notably, January 03 is the birth anniversary of Jaipal Singh Munda, who, as the captain of the Indian hockey team, gave India a gold medal in the Olympics. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly and laid the foundation of the Jharkhand movement.
The State government has launched the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda Pardesiya Scholarship Scheme 2020, on the occasion of completion of one year of the government, under which 10 ST students will be able to take education in prestigious foreign educational institutions like Cambridge and Oxford each year. The scheme will help talented tribal youth to study abroad.
It is known that Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda was the first tribal from Jharkhand, who had raised the State's value by taking education abroad. He was selected in the Indian Civil Service (ICS). His training of ICS was affected because he moved to the Netherlands in 1928 as the Captain of the Indian team that won the first gold medal in Olympic hockey in Amsterdam. On his return, he was asked to complete one year of ICS training, but refused to do so.