The schools across the State on Saturday observed a two-minute silent prayer for the CRPF jawans martyred in the terrorist attack in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
Both students and teachers held the prayer to pay homage to the brave-hearts.
On Friday, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had appealed to the schools to observe the silent prayer in memory of the martyrs.
Two Odia Jawans Prasanna Sahu of Shikhar village in Jagatsinghpur district and Manoj Kumar Behera of Ratanpur village in Cuttack district were among 42 CRPF troopers killed in the Fidayeen attack in Pulwama on Thursday.
