NO SOONER did Union House Minister Amit Shah identify the Sarai Kale Khan intersection as ‘Bhagwan Birsa Munda Chowk’ after inaugurating the tribal cultural icon’s statue Friday, the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) authorities within the Capital questioned if due course of was adopted.
Shah had unveiled a statue of Birsa Munda Friday afternoon close to the Sarai Kale Khan Chowk on the event of his one hundred and fiftieth delivery anniversary yr. The occasion adopted the renaming of the intersection by Union Minister of Housing and City Affairs (MoHUA) Manohar Lal Khattar.
Nevertheless, AAP sources sought to know whether or not the proposal for the renaming of the crossing – the place east, central and north Delhi converge – was vetted by the street naming authority that presides over the method.
Sources within the Union authorities, however, challenged the competition stating that the identify ‘Sarai Kale Khan’ — which was neither delineated nor “formally named” — “didn’t exist in any authorities data” pertaining to the Capital.
Delhi authorities sources, nevertheless, mentioned naming a location was the prerogative of the State Naming Authority which, in the intervening time, didn’t exist within the Capital because it was but to be constituted.
“At the moment, Delhi doesn’t have a street naming authority, so the place was the permission to rename (Sarai Kale Khan Chowk to) Bhagwan Birsa Munda Chowk? This street falls beneath Delhi authorities’s PWD. The place is the order concerning the renaming?” a Delhi authorities supply requested.
Sources within the Union authorities, nevertheless, contended this. “Sarai Kale Khan is the identify of the world and ISBT there’ll nonetheless be identified by the identical identify…there was no point out of Sarai Kale Khan in authorities data; the renaming of the intersection is the primary of its form with regards to the illustration of tribal identification within the capital,” a supply within the Union authorities mentioned.
On the occasion, the place Khattar, Delhi L-G VK Saxena, MoS Harsh Malhotra and different dignitaries have been in attendance, the Union House Minister mentioned that in 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced that the delivery anniversary of Bhagwan Birsa Munda (November 15) can be celebrated as ‘Janjatiya Gaurav Divas’ (Tribal Satisfaction Day).
“It was on this very day that Bhagwan Birsa Munda was born in a small village in Jharkhand,” Shah mentioned including that in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth delivery anniversary of Birsa Munda, the approaching yr, until 15 November 2025, can be celebrated as Adivasi Gaurav Varsh.
