From my personal standpoint, I am not opposed to "renaming" a city. But, what is more important is the purpose and the perceived benefits of renaming. Will Bangalore change in anyway if it is renamed to Bengaluru? No! Will it make a difference to the day to day life of any Bangalorean? No! Will it attract any new development options, or improve civic services, or make government and civic bodies function better? No! Then, why the hell is the government wasting the taxpayers' money? Change of name means a lot of expenditure: new name posts all across the city, legal documentations need to reflect the change, etc, etc. Why can't the government use that money to improve our roads, clean up the sand that covers up roads, improve drain facilities, etc instead of wasting it on a stupid name-change. With or without the name change, Bangalore/Bengaluru is the same. When will our country and society rise up beyond these petty language/regional politics? I would like to know from other readers if we citizens can actually take the Government to court on this matter: "no perceived benefits of name change, hence improper utilization of public funds" Please help me with info...
Poiticians Waste Peopl's Money......................
by robin on Nov 02, 2006 02:38 PM Permalink
Renaming the state name who is going to GAIN.
only these politicians only. they just fool the people and make agenda in their election campaign.
Changing the name of State like Madras to Chennai, Bombay to Mumbai, Calcutta to Kolkotta and now Banglore to Bangalooru. doesnt make any difference. Simply people tax money being wasted. I dont know what gain people is going to get. Who ever says like this those people's thick and thins doesn't know the state languge properly.
Whatever idiotic thing done by West Bengal,Maharastra, Tamilnadu and Kerla government has done , now Kartanaka falls in this TRAP and joined as new member. So this will go on to other states on.
If a State name is Changed one should analysis how people money is wasted.
1. All the govt. related forms, govt. bus tickets and other related govt documents, govt seals will have include new city name. then what will happen to the old form it will b simply wasted.
Better V can utilise this money to uplift the people who where in the remote Villages still in need of basic things. I think The Hon President should take action regd. this
