Kurukshetra's Amin village is now Abhimanyupur

New Delhi, March 16

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has given its approval to a proposal of the Haryana Government to rename Amin village in Kurukshetra district to Abhimanyupur.

Officials in the MHA said a decision in this regard was taken after a formal nod from a few Central organisations and the no-objection certification had been issued.

The MHA considers the proposals of name change according to existing guidelines in consultations with agencies concerned. It gives its approval to the change of name of any place after taking no-objections from the Ministry of Railways, Department of Posts and Survey of India. These organisations have to confirm that there is no such city, town or village in their records with a name similar to the proposed one.

The exercise of changing the name of a village or town or a city could be done through an executive order, officials said, while adding that in case of renaming a state, the government would require an amendment in the Constitution with a simple majority in Parliament. — TNS