'Char Dhams' among eight railway stations renamed in Amethi

The Centre has approved renaming 8 Amethi railway stations in Uttar Pradesh. A no-objection-certificate (NOC) has been issued to rename Fursatganj Railway Station as Tapeshwarnath Dham, Kasimpur Halt as Jais City, Jais City as Guru Gorakhnath Dham, Bani as Swami Paramhans, Misrauli as Maa Kalikan Dham, Nihalgarh as Maharaja Bijli Pasi, and Akbarganj as Maa Kalikan Dham, according to the home ministry.

The suggestions were approved in March after local requests, officials said. For renaming villages, railway stations, towns, and cities, the state government must get a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the union home ministry. Officials added that the NOC changes other village or district entities like railway stations and schools.

"The NOC is issued after seeking reports from field units of Geographical Survey of India (GSI) and Department of Post and Ministry of Earth Sciences," said a home ministry official. In the previous six years, the MHA has accepted various city and town renaming applications. On December 15, 2018, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, received a no-objection certificate to become Prayagraj.


In 2022, MHA gave NOC for change in the name of nagar panchayat 'Mundera Baazar' as 'Chauri-Chaura' in Gorakhpur and village 'Telia Afghan' as 'Telia Shukla' in Deoria of Uttar Pradesh. In 2021, the Madhya Pradesh government got clearance to change the name of Hoshangabad Nagar as "Narmadapuram". Babai was renamed after the renowned journalist and poet Makhanlal Chaturvedi.

The ministry had earlier approved the renaming of the British-era railway station Robertsgang as Sonbhadra, Farah Town railway station near Mathura as DDU Station and iconic Mughalsarai junction after Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay (DDU).