India has witnessed numerous changes over the years. Ranging from the building of new statues, and renovation of structures and monuments to even changing the names of certain historic places, India is seeing it all. In the last five years, as many as seven cities were allowed to be renamed. Cities in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and several others have been renamed accordingly. Although the Centre faced flak for renaming a few old and historic cities, the process of renaming still received a nod.
These Cities In India Were Renamed
A No objection certificate (NOC) was received in the year 2018 for Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad to be renamed ‘Prayagraj’. The West Bengal had also proposed for the state of West Bengal to be renamed ‘Bangla’. Andhra Pradesh’s Rajahmundry city too received a no-objection certificate for renaming it to Rajamahendravaram in August 2017. Jharkhand’s Nagar Untari too was renamed Shri Banshidhar Nagar in August 2018. In 2018 itself, a few places in Madhya Pradesh too were named. Birsinghpur Pali was changed to Maa Birasini Dham, and Hoshangabad Nagar changed to Narmadapuram and Babai to Makhan Nagar.
In March 2022, Punjab’s Shri Hargobindpur city too received the approval to be renamed Shri Hargobindpur Sahib.
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Maharashtra’s Two Cities To be Renamed
On July 16, the new government formed in Maharastra approved to rename of the cities – Aurangabad and Osmanabad. The cabinet gave a nod to the decision of changing the names to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv respectively.
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