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The Tamil Nadu authorities has issued elaborate guidelines for identifying and renaming roads, streets, residential areas, autobus stands, markets, waterbodies, and colony panchayats that transportation caste-based oregon discriminatory names.
The authorities issued the guidelines successful enactment with the announcement made by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin successful the Assembly connected April 29 that the word “Colony” would beryllium removed from authoritative records and nationalist usage, arsenic it had travel to symbolise oppression and carried the connotation of untouchability.
According to the guidelines, section bodies should behaviour a elaborate appraisal to find whether immoderate existing names of roads, streets, residential areas, autobus stands, markets, oregon waterbodies are derogatory towards a peculiar community. The workout should beryllium carried retired nether the supervision of the Block Development Officers for colony panchayats, Executive Officers for municipality panchayats, and Commissioners for municipalities and corporations.
After preparing the database of specified names, the officials acrophobic should measure the prevailing section concern and instrumentality into relationship the views of residents. If determination is nary objection to continuing with the existing name, the aforesaid sanction should beryllium retained. However, if the sanction is recovered to beryllium derogatory oregon offensive, and the residents request a change, it should beryllium renamed.
Certain names, including Adidravidar Colony, Harijan Colony, Vannankulam, Parayar Street and Chakkiliar Salai, indispensable beryllium renamed. In specified cases, they should beryllium renamed with caste-neutral and socially inclusive alternatives based connected the sentiment of residents.
The authorities has besides suggested utilizing the names of flowers for ponds and the names of saint poets, scholars, and leaders for streets and roads. The authorities further directed officials to workout utmost caution portion carrying retired the exercise.
For effecting the alteration of names, the support of the Grama Sabha and Area Sabha is required for colony panchayats and municipality section bodies respectively. If the existing sanction is to beryllium retained, valid reasons should beryllium recorded. For agrarian section bodies, the database prepared by the Block Development Officers should beryllium verified by an serviceman of the fertile of Assistant Director (Rural Development) astatine the territory level, and for municipality section bodies, the lists prepared by the Executive Officers oregon Commissioners should beryllium verified by the officers astatine the zonal level.
After verification, the Collector should contented a notification successful the District Gazette, allowing a 21-day play from the day of work for the nationalist to taxable objections oregon suggestions successful writing. The objections oregon suggestions should beryllium cautiously examined earlier preparing consolidated proposals, separately for agrarian and municipality section bodies, to beryllium forwarded to the State government.
The State authorities shall instrumentality a last determination connected the renaming successful accordance with the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1994, and the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Act, 1998, and contented the last orders. It has besides issued akin guidelines to the Revenue and Disaster Management Department to region caste-based names from gross villages.
