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Days After Inauguration, Agra Fort Metro Station Renamed Dr Ambedkar Chowk. (Picture: Metro Rail Information)
UPMRC has been directed to alter all indicators and inscriptions to replicate the brand new identify and the price of renaming the metro station is projected to be Rs 1 lakh.
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi nearly inaugurated the Agra Fort metro station, it has been formally renamed to honour former Union regulation minister Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.
The station, inaugurated on March 6, was beforehand generally known as Agra Fort Station and can now be known as Dr. Ambedkar Chowk Metro Station, in accordance with an order issued by the Uttar Pradesh authorities.
It’s to be famous that the renaming of the metro station comes as a response to a longstanding demand. This demand was just lately addressed to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath by UP Cupboard Minister Child Rani Maurya in a memorandum on March 7.
The renaming resolution was initiated by an order from the Extra Chief Secretary of Housing and City Planning, Kishlay Singh, citing that the method will start on Wednesday. It is going to be led by the Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Company (UPMRC).
“The state authorities has determined to alter the identify of Agra Fort Metro Station to Dr. Ambedkar Chowk Metro Station,” reads the official assertion, as reported by abp Dwell.
The Agra Fort station, an underground station throughout the metropolis’s metro community, now joins the record of just lately renamed stations with this identify change. Different stations which have just lately undergone identify adjustments embrace Basai Metro Station, which is now generally known as Captain Shubham Gupta Metro Station.
The UPMRC has been directed to alter all indicators and inscriptions to replicate the brand new identify. It’s anticipated that the price of renaming the Dr. Ambedkar Chowk Metro Station is projected to be Rs 1 lakh, whereas the federal government spent roughly Rs 80,000 on renaming different metro stations beforehand.
The choice to rename the Agra Fort station is in step with ongoing efforts to rename different stations, together with the Jama Masjid station, which is quickly to be renamed Mankameshwar station.
This improvement is an element of a bigger growth of Agra’s metro system, which is able to cowl a complete of 30 km, with six km at present operational. On March 7, Prime Minister Narendra Modi nearly inaugurated six extra stations, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath supervising the launch of metro service on the Taj Mahal station.
CM Yogi Adityanath flagged off the Agra Metro from the Taj Mahal Metro Station, expressing gratitude to PM Modi for choosing Agra as the location for the metro challenge, reported ABP Information.
Reiterating the federal government’s concentrate on speedy city improvement, together with initiatives within the IT sector and infrastructure enhancements, CM Yogi was quoted saying, “With the graduation of the Agra Metro, Uttar Pradesh has achieved the excellence of being the primary state within the nation to offer metro companies in most of its cities.”
