The suggestions were approved in March after local requests, officials said. For renaming villages, railway stations, towns, and cities, the state government must get a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the union home ministry. Officials added that the NOC changes other village or district entities like railway stations and schools.
The Kerala Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Centre to officially change the state s name to Keralam . Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan presented the resolution in the Kerala Legislative Assembly requesting the Centre to change the name of the state.
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The central government has received a proposal from the Government of West Bengal for renaming the State as "Bangla" in all three languages ie. Bengali, English and Hindi, informed Ministry of Home Affairs in the Parliament on Tuesday.