{"id":89929,"date":"2000-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-08-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/urged-upon-the-prime-minister-and-also-the-minister-of-home-affairs-to-on-18-august-2000"},"modified":"2018-12-06T08:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:56:53","slug":"urged-upon-the-prime-minister-and-also-the-minister-of-home-affairs-to-on-18-august-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/urged-upon-the-prime-minister-and-also-the-minister-of-home-affairs-to-on-18-august-2000","title":{"rendered":"Urged Upon The Prime Minister And Also The Minister Of Home Affairs To &#8230; on 18 August, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Urged Upon The Prime Minister And Also The Minister Of Home Affairs To &#8230; on 18 August, 2000<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=Title\">Title<\/a>:\tUrged upon the Prime Minister and also the Minister of Home Affairs to give approval to the proposal of Government of West Bengal with regard to renaming of Calcutta and West Bengal as Kolkatta and Bangla respectively.\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=SHRI%20LAKSHMAN%20SETH%20\">SHRI LAKSHMAN SETH <\/a>(<a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=TAMLUK\">TAMLUK<\/a>): Sir, the Government of West Bengal has made a proposal to re-name West Bengal as `Bangla\u2019 and Calcutta as `Kolkatta\u2019. But it is a matter of astonishment that already a few months have elapsed but the Government of India is not approving this proposal. Already Madras has been re-named as Chennai and Bombay as Mumbai. But the proposal of the Government of West Bengal is not receiving approval of Government of India.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tSo, I urge upon the Prime Minister and also the Minister of Home Affairs to give approval to the proposal of Government of West Bengal with regard to re-naming of Calcutta and West Bengal as Kolkatta and Bangla respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Urged Upon The Prime Minister And Also The Minister Of Home Affairs To &#8230; on 18 August, 2000 Title: Urged upon the Prime Minister and also the Minister of Home Affairs to give approval to the proposal of Government of West Bengal with regard to renaming of Calcutta and West Bengal as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Urged Upon The Prime Minister And Also The Minister Of Home Affairs To ... on 18 August, 2000 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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