Meritorious girls to unfurl Tricolour on R-Day

The Haryana government has decided that meritorious girls from villages across the state will unfurl the national flag at school-level Republic Day programmes.

The Haryana government has decided that meritorious girls from villages across the state will unfurl the national flag at school-level Republic Day programmes.

Apart from, an education department spokesperson said, girls in villages and wards who were born between January 22, 2015 and January 22, 2016, have been invited to attend the Republic Day function under the ‘Mera pehla gantantra utsav’ (my first Republic Day) programme. Their mothers have been allotted seats in the front row.

Girls who topped Class 10, 12, graduation and post-graduation examinations for during the 2014-15 academic year, besides other higher examinations, would be felicitated during the Republic Day function.