The Union government has approved Raghuvaran Das-led Jharkhand government’s proposal to change the name of Nagar Untari town and railway station to Banshidhar Nagar, after Banshidhar Temple which is dedicated to Lord Krishna in Garhwa district.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has cleared the proposal to change the name of the railway station and issued an NOC in this respect, The Indian Express reported.
A senior government official said, “The Jharkhand government wants to develop Nagar Untari as Banshidhar Nagar and model it on the lines of Mathura and Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh. They have plans to make ‘Banshidhar Nagar’ part of the Lord Krishna religious circuit. They are examining proposals for a tie up with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).”
As of March, there were 73 accidents recorded in 2017-18, The Indian Express reported.
The Modi government is on a name changing spree. Recently, Mughalsarai station in Uttar Pradesh was renamed Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction railway station and the name of Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) was changed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Probably, PM Modi is following a particular model of development by changing these names.
However, even the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) allies are not happy with this name-change model of development as infrastructure and others issues need urgent attention to improve the condition of Indian Railways. “Changing names of stations will not lead to trains running on time,” Om Prakash Rajbhar, a minister in Yogi Adityanath’s government had said after BJP president Amit Shah flagged off the first train to mark the renaming of Mughalsarai station as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya junction.