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PIL in SC For Name Change To Bharat
PIL in SC For Name Change To Bharat
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Listing Performa
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Synopsis & List of dates
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Writ Petition (C) with Affidavit.
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ANNEXURE P-1: A true copy of the representation dated 16.11.2012.
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It is most humbly submitted that this petition U/Art. 32 are in the nature of
Public Interest Litigation where citizens rights U/Art. 14 and 19 are required
to be enforced and where certain actions of Central Government regarding
City name change proposals, which are not supported by Law of
Parliament, are challenged.
The short list of dates is as under:1700
The name Bharat was change to India by British Rule.
1902
There was an Act called imperial Library Act 1902.
1947
India gained freedom.
8.Sep 1948
Imperial Library (change of name) Act 1948 was passed the statements of
objects and reasons read.
In view of the Constitutional changes in the Country it is appropriate that
the World Imperial is associated with National Institutions on India. It has,
therefore, been decided to change the name of Imperial Library Calcutta.
The Bill seeks to ensure that the relevant references to Imperial Library in
Act 1902 are construed as reference to the National Library.
26.Nov.1950
Constitution of India came into force.
2012
From 1950 till today, there are three procedures of name change is in
practice.
() For change of name of State, procedure is prescribed in Art. 3 (e) of the
Constitution of India.
() For change of name of Union Territory, procedure is prescribing U/Art. 3
(e) of the Act.
publicity.
3.3Petitioner is citizen of India and he is genuine concerned with the
subject matter and since one year he has been looking for Answers in the
subject matter.
3.4The petitioner often visits US and his friends abroad are also concerned
with the subject matter and they also requesting petitioner to bring the
subject issue to the notice of Honble Apex Court.
3.5The petitioner has placed all available material in public domain before
Honble Court.
3.6Petitioner is qualified as B.Com petitioner is filing this PIL petition only at
his on expenses. He is no funded by any one to file this petition.
3.7The petitioner has no litigation pending in any Court of India which may
be even remotely connected to the issue.
5.CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS & DECISIONS REGARDING NAME
CHANGE OF STATE AND UNION TERRITORYS IN THIS PETITION.
Art.3 (e) Parliament may by law- (a) form a new Sate by separation of
territory from any State or by uniting two or more States or parts of States
by uniting any territory to a part of any State:
(b) Increase the area of any state,
(c) Diminish the area of any state,
(d) Alter the boundaries of any state,
(e) alter the name of any State,
Provided that no Bill for the purpose shall be introduced in either House of
Parliament except in the Bill affects the area, boundaries or name of any of
the States,. The Bill has been referred by the President to the Legislature
of that State for expressing its views thereon within such period as may be
specified in the reference or within such further period as the President
may allow and the period so specified or allowed has expired.
Explanation I. In this article, in clauses (a) to (e), State includes a Union
territory, but in the proviso, State does not include a Union Territory.
Explanation II. The power conferred on Parliament by clause (a) includes
the power to form a new State or Union territory by uniting a part of any
State or Union territory to any other State or Union territory.
6.PROVISIONS OF LAW REGARDING NAME CHANGE OF CITIES IN
VARIOUS STATES.
For name of change of City, there is no Law that proposal of name change
of a City in a State, is required to be approved by Central Government.
However, there is a practice, being followed prior to Independence 1947
that wherever a name of a City is required to be change, the proposal has
to be sent to Central Government and name can be changed only after
approval of Central Government. No timelimit is fixed under which Central
Government is required to clear the proposal to change name.
ONE EXAMPLE
One such example is about proposal to change name of Ahmedabad to
12.Tellicherry to Thalassery
13.Badagara to Vatakara
14.Palai to Pala
15.Verapoly to Varapuzha
16.Cherpalchery to Cherpulasseri
17.Koney to Konni
Madhya Pradesh
1.Ahilyanagari/ Indur to indore
2.Avantika to Ujjain
3.Bhelsa to Vidisha
4.Rassen to Raisen
5.Saugor to Sagar
6.Jubbulpore to Jabalpur
7.Bhopal Bairagarh to Sant Hirda Ram Nagar, Bhopal.
8.Bellasgate to Bheraghat
9.Ojjain to Ujjaini
10.Mandu to Mandavgarh
Maharashtra
1.Bombay to Mumbai
Pondicherry
1.Pondicherry to Puducherry (change effective from 1 October 2006)
2.Yanaon to Yanam (change effective from merger with Indian Union)
Punjab
1.Jullunder to Jalandhar
2.Ropar to Rupnagar
3.Mohali to SAS Nagar
Tamil Nadu
1. Coimbatore to Koyamutthoor (change effective 1972)
2. Tinnevelly to Tirunelveli
3. Tranquebar to Tharangambadi
4. Trichinopoly to Tiruchirapalli (change effective 1971)
5. Madras to Chennai (change effective August 1996)
6. Tanjore to Thanjavur
7. Tuticorin to Thoothukudi
8. Cape Comorin to Kanyakumari
9. Ootacamund to Udagamandalam
10. Conjeevaram to Kanchipuram
11. Conjeevaram to Kanchipuram
12. Virudupatti to Virudhunagar
13. Potonovo to Parangipettai
14. Mayavaram to Mayiladuthurai
Uttar Pradesh
1.Cawnpore to Kanpur (change effective 1948)
2.Benares to Varanasi (change effective 1956)
West Bengal
1.Calcutta to Kolkata (change effective from 1 January 2001)
2.Burdwan to Bardhaman.
13.NAME CHANGE PROPOSAL OF CITIES WHICH ARE PROPOSED
BUT ARE PENDING FOR THE APPROVAL OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
SINCE YEARS.
0.(Ahmedabad to Karnavati (Proposal Dropped as it was not decided for
decade).
1.Allahabad to Prayag
2.Aurangabad to Sambhajinagar
3.Bhopal to Bhojpal
4.Delhi to Indraprastha
5.Indore back to Induru
6.Mughalsarai to Deen Dayal Nagar
7.Patna to Pataliputra
8.Mysore to Mysooru
9.Mangalore to Mangaluru
10.Alibag to Shribag
14.NAME CHANGE PROPOSAL WHICH ARE PROBABLY NOT
JUSTICEABLE BUT SINCE THIS HONBLE COURT HAS VAST POWER
TO MOULD RELIEF, THE SAME ARE MENTIONED BELOW:14.1The Union Government may be directed if Your Lordships think fit that
after 65 years of End of Colonial Rule, the English name India should be
dropped and name Bharat should be restored.
14.2The name India was known in Old English, and was used in King
Alfreds translation of Orosius. In Middle English the name was, under
French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered Early Modern
English as Indie. The name India then came back to English usage from
the 17th century onwards, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or
Spanish or Portuguese.
14.3It is desire of the petitioner that the 17th Century name India may be
dropped by Government because colonial Rule ended 1947 and now
India should be known as Bharat in English as well as in Indian
language.
14.4Bharata is the official Sanskrit name of the country, Bharata Ganarajya,
and the name is derived from the ancient Indian texts, the Puranas, which
refers to the land the comprises India as Bharata var Sam, and uses this
term to distinguish it from other var Sas of or continents. For example, the
Vayu Puranas says he who conquers the whole of Bharata varsa is
celebrated as a samrat (Vayu Purana 45, 86).
14.5Until the death of Maharaja Parikshit, the last formidable emperor of
the Kuru dynasty, the known world was known as Bharata varsha.
14.6According to the most popular theory the name Bharata is the vrddhi of
Bharata, a king mentioned in Rigveda.
(HARESH RAICHURA)
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