The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has approved the renaming of several villages whose names were considered by the local population to be derogatory to a particular gender or community or simply having a negative connotation.
According to government officials, some of the villages renamed last year include those with names that are colloquial terms derogatory to women, transgenders or the Scheduled Castes.
Haryana government proposed changing the name of Chamar Khera in Hisar district to Sundar Khera. Another Haryana village, Kinnar, to Gaiba Nagar.....
Read more of this in a report by Azaan Javaid published in Hindustan Times...
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