Nearly 77 years after Bhagat Singh sacrificed his life for the freedom of the country, the government plans to carry out further research into his eventful life.
As a part of the same initiative, the government would set up a Bhagat Singh Chair in Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The Chair will not only focus upon the research on the martyr and his comrades' revolutionary activities, but it would also build up archives for all revolutionary movements fought against the Britishers.
The government would grant Rs two crore for the Chair, a senior official in the HRD ministry told PTI.
The Chair would concentrate on the major happenings in India's freedom struggle starting from 1757 when the British forces won the battle of Plassey and started the process of colonising the country through East India Company.
"During the period of two centuries of British Raj, there was not a single day when the colonial rule did not face resistance from the Indians. The long history of resistance remains largely neglected. The Chair would take up the job of finding more information, collecting the available documents and propagate the knowledge," the official said.
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