Maha govt issues notification on name change of Aurangabad, Osmanabad
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Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Friday issued a notification on the change of names of the districts Aurangabad and Osmanabad to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv respectively.
The notification issued by the Revenue Department said that the suggestions and objections sought a few months ago have been considered and the decision to change the names at the sub-division, village, taluka, and district levels has been taken.
The renaming decision was taken in the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government’s last cabinet meeting chaired by the then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on June 29, 2022, just before he resigned.
However, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who were sworn in a day later, had said that the Thackeray-led dispensation’s decision to rename these places was illegal as it was taken by it after the governor had asked it to prove majority in the state assembly.
In July last year, the Shinde-led government gave cabinet approval to rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv respectively.
In the MVA government’s last cabinet meeting, Aurangabad was renamed as Sambhajinagar, but the Shinde government added the ‘Chhatrapati’ prefix to it.
With inputs from PTI