Gurgaon has been renamed as Gurugram, now for 'Mahabharat' Delhi has to be renamed Indraprastha
In
a significant development the Manohar Lal
Khattar government has decided to rename Gurgaon as Gurugram and Mewat
as Nuh, claiming that this is long pending demand of the local people of
that area.
An official spokesman of the Haryana
government said that Haryana is a historical land of Bhagawat Gita and Gurgaon
is a learning centre. “It had been known as Gurgaon since the times of Guru
Dronacharya. Gurgaon was a great center of education where the princes used to
be provided education. Therefore, since long the people of the area had been
demanding that Gurgaon be renamed as Gurugram,” he reasoned.
Please also note that Gurgaon, the corporate
hub of Haryana on the outskirts of Delhi.
The government also decided to rename Mewat
district as Nuh.
Mewat, in fact is a geographical and cultural
unit and not a town. It is spread beyond Haryana in the adjoining states of
Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, the spokesman said.
(Author: Ramesh Kumar Jajoo
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(Various Sources)
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