Sharing the information, the state School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Sunday said that the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has given the approval to rename schools after the name of 11 Punjabi players of the Indian hockey team who won a bronze medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020.
The Minister said that Government Senior Secondary School (GSSS) Mithapur, Jalandhar, has been named after Indian hockey team captain Manpreet Singh, and the school will now be known as Olympian Manpreet Singh Government Senior Secondary School, Mithapur.
There was a golden contribution of Punjab in the field of Indian Sports and it has sent the second largest contingent in Olympics in the country as 20 sportspersons were from Punjab out of total 124.