The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has dropped its bid to rename Patna’s landmark Dak Bungalow intersection named earlier in 2002 after Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, after reports about the move hit headlines.
The PMC was to discuss the proposal at its Empowered Standing Committee (ESC) meeting on December 20 to rename Patna’s Dak Bungalow intersection from Tagore chowk to Atal Bihari chowk.
Sources in PMC, though, told The Hindu that chief minister Nitish Kumar himself took notice of the media report and stepped in to stall the PMC from renaming the Tagore chowk.
The Bihar Bengali Association and other party leaders too had protested the move.
The PMC commissioner Anupam Kumar Suman told journalists, “Proposal of renaming the Dak Bungalow chowk was to be discussed in ESC meeting on Thursday but the agenda was not finalised…the proposal may have been shot down at the meeting after review.”
The ESC, headed by Patna Mayor Sita Sahu, would now explore the possibility of setting up a statute of Rabindranath Tagore at the Dak Bungalow chowk with a signage to make it popular as Tagore chowk, added PMC commissioner.
Mayor Sita Sahu said that an another upcoming park at city’s Rajendranagar locality will be named Atal Bihari Vajpayee chowk.
