The Maharashtra government has issued a directive to rename villages, municipalities, roads, and housing colonies that carry caste-based or community-specific names. The goal is to replace such names with those of personalities associated with democratic values.

On Thursday, October 9, the state rural development department released a government resolution (GR) regarding the renaming of locations with potentially offensive or disparaging implications.

The resolution referred to Maharashtra as a "progressive state" and noted that similar instructions had earlier been issued by the social justice department. For urban areas, the state urban development department will lay out the process for renaming and assigning new names.

In rural areas, the state rural development department will de

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