Process to change the name of the township starts, one crore rupees will be spent
The new name will be Vashishtnagar or Vashishthi, the district officer sent a proposal to the Board of Revenue
Basti, February 07: After Faizabad, Allahabad, Mughalsarai, the process of changing the name of Basti district in Uttar Pradesh has also kicked off. Now the new name of the district will be Vasishtnagar or Vasishthi.
The district administration has sent a proposal to the Board of Revenue (BOR) to change its name.
Giving this information on Friday, District Magistrate (DM) Ashutosh Niranjan said that in case of change of name, an expenditure of Rs one crore will be incurred.
After renaming Faizabad to Ayodhya, the demand for renaming the neighboring district township was intensified. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who reached the township for the first time after taking the oath, has been handed over a letter, which was accepted by the Chief Minister. In his speeches, Yogi Adityanath used to talk about making Basti Vashishtnagar often before becoming Chief Minister.
Scholars believe that in Treta Yuga, this place was the spiritual field of Maharishi Vasistha. King Dasharatha, the father of Maryada Purushottam Lord Rama, performed the Putreshthi Yajna on the advice of Maharishi Vashistha through Shringi Rishi in this area.
On the instructions of the Chief Minister, a proposal was made to change the name of Basti district for the first time two and a half months ago and sent to the Revenue Board. After this, information was sought from the revenue council in the event of change of name.
After conducting the cost estimation, the District Magistrate gave the report to the Commissioner and with the revised proposal, Commissioner Anil Kumar Sagar has sent it to the Revenue Board.
Basti DM Ashutosh Niranjan said that a proposal to change the name of Basti district has been sent to the BOR. In case the name of the district is changed, an expenditure of Rs one crore will be incurred.
At the Basti Mahotsav a year ago, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had announced the name of Basti Medical College after Maharishi Vasishtha, since then the demand for changing the name of Basti district was intensified. The proposal to change the name of Basti district to Vashishtnagar or Vashishthi is in the final stages of churn at the government level.
The people’s representatives of the district have also demanded that the township be named Vashisht Nagar. Haraiya MLA Ajay Singh has written a letter to the Chief Minister two years ago and demanded the name of the township to be Vashistha Nagar. They say that Harraiya tehsil is a very large area known as Chhoti Ayodhya. The present government is constantly trying for its development. It is expected that twenty-four lakh people of the district will soon get its good news.
