Chandigarh, May 18 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Sunday announced that a study centre and a chair in the name of Maharana Pratap will be established at Kurukshetra University, while the name of the Government Women's College at Baragadh of Shahzadpur will be changed to Maharani Padmavati Government College.

These announcements were made during a state-level function at Shahzadpur in Ambala under the "sant-mahapurush samman evam vichar prasar yojana" on the occasion of Maharana Pratap Jayanti.

On the occasion, Saini also announced Rs.5 crore for various development works in the Naraingarh assembly constituency, Rs.31 lakh for the construction of the Rajput hostel and construction of a pucca drain in Shahzadpur.

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