Maharashtra Cabinet Approves Renaming Ahmednagar District As Ahilya Nagar

Maharashtra Cabinet approved renaming Ahmednagar district as Ahilya Nagar. The State cabinet also decided to rename eight suburban railway stations in Mumbai that carry colonial names, including Curry Road station, which will be called Lalbaug; Sandhurst Road station, which will be called Dongri, Marine Lines to be renamed Mumbadevi, Charni Road as Girgaon, Cotton Green as Kalachowki, Dockyard as Mazgaon, King’s Circle as Tirthankar Parswanath and Mumbai Central as Nana



Jagannath Shankarsheth.

The State Cabinet also approved the construction of a sea link between Uttan (Bhayander) and Virar (Palghar). The Maharashtra cabinet approved a new Marathi language policy to establish it as a language of knowledge acquisition and employment in the next 25 years. The cabinet decided to purchase 2.5 acres of land in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir to construct a Maharashtra Bhavan.