Ravi Dahiya being felicitated (IANS)
Ravi Dahiya studied within the senior secondary college for boys in Adarsh Nagar, which can now be renamed as Ravi Dahiya Bal Vidyalaya.
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A Delhi authorities college in Adarsh Nagar, the place Olympic silver medallist wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya studied, shall be named after the Haryana grappler, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, stated on Tuesday.
The resolution on this regard was taken by the Delhi authorities throughout Dahiya’s go to to the college on Tuesday, the place he was welcomed with by the college workers and Sisodia.
Dahiya, who belongs to a village in Sonipat, had studied within the senior secondary college for boys in Adarsh Nagar, which can now be renamed as Ravi Dahiya Bal Vidyalaya.
“Olympic medal winner Ravi Dahiya was in the present day welcomed at his college in Adarsh Nagar. It was an emotional second for his academics. The authorities has determined that the college will now be named as Ravi Dahiya Bal Vidyalaya,” Sisodia tweeted.
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the 23-year-old wrestler had bagged the silver medal after losing in the final of the 57kg freestyle category to Russian Olympic Committee’s (ROC) Zavur Uguev. He thus became the second grappler after Sushil Kumar to win a silver at the Olympics.
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