{"id":172819,"date":"2025-06-09T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=172819"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:00:46","slug":"uttarakhand-government-renames-15-places-to-reflect-indian-culture-and-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/uttarakhand-government-renames-15-places-to-reflect-indian-culture-and-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand Government Renames 15 Places to Reflect Indian Culture and Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Uttarakhand Chief Minister\u00a0Pushkar Singh Dhami\u00a0announced the renaming of\u00a015 places\u00a0across\u00a0Haridwar, Dehradun, Nainital, and Udham Singh Nagar\u00a0districts, aiming to align with\u00a0public sentiment\u00a0and\u00a0Indian cultural heritage. The move seeks to honor\u00a0great historical figures\u00a0and inspire the people of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Minister Dhami emphasized that the renaming of these locations is intended to honor personalities who contributed to the preservation of Indian culture<\/strong>. This step is seen as an effort to instill a sense of pride and historical awareness<\/strong> among the people of Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

List of Renamed Places in Uttarakhand<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The places renamed are distributed across four major districts<\/strong>, namely Haridwar, Dehradun, Nainital, and Udham Singh Nagar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renamed Places in Haridwar District<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Aurangzebpur<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Shivaji Nagar<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Gajiwali<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Arya Nagar<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Chandpur<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Jyotiba Phule Nagar<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Mohammadpur Jat<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Mohanpur Jat<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Khanpur Kursli<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Ambedkar Nagar<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Indrishpur<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Nandpur<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Khanpur<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Shri Krishna Pur<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Akbarpur Fazalpur<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Vijayanagar<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Renamed Places in Dehradun District<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
      \n
    1. Miyanwala<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Ramji Wala<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Pirwala<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Kesari Nagar<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Chandpur Khurd<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Prithviraj Nagar<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Abdullah Nagar<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Daksh Nagar<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Renamed Places in Nainital District<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Nawabi Road<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Atal Marg<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Panchakki to ITI Road<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Guru Golwalkar Marg<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Renamed Place in Udham Singh Nagar District<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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        1. Sultanpur Patti Municipal Council<\/strong>\u00a0\u2192\u00a0Kaushalya Puri<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Uttarakhand Chief Minister\u00a0Pushkar Singh Dhami\u00a0announced the renaming of\u00a015 places\u00a0across\u00a0Haridwar, Dehradun, Nainital, and Udham Singh Nagar\u00a0districts, aiming to align with\u00a0public sentiment\u00a0and\u00a0Indian cultural heritage. The move seeks to honor\u00a0great historical figures\u00a0and inspire the people of the state. Chief Minister Dhami emphasized that the renaming of these locations is intended to honor personalities who contributed to the preservation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":172820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5371],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-172819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2025","tag-uttarakhand-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172821,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172819\/revisions\/172821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}