[vinita singh]

Dear all

This is something that concerns us all - as a principle of democracy not followed. There should have been and must be adequate consultation before renaming our city

Please sign this petition and share with your networks. 

The CM has given an in-principle approval. The Cabinet has not. And the Union Home Ministry (that will finally consent) has not.

So, lets not give up.

https://www.change.org/p/chief-minister-haryana-shri-khattar-cm-shri-khattar-haryana-cabinet-please-have-public-consultation-before-renaming-gurgaon

Vinita

[Shailesh Pathak]

Just curious. Our city government, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon, is said to have sent a proposal for the name change. When did this happen?

Best wishes

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[Devinder Chopra]

i learnt it was done in 2012 when Congress was in the seat of power under Hooda sahib from Rohtak----dev c.

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[Manoj Khera]

Shailesh: I had bumped into this on Twitter 

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/zzEIMsgpGvRbPCAzV2pY5N/How-Gurgaon-became-Gurugram.html

How much of this is true we need to find out 

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[Shailesh Pathak]

Thanks, Manoj, for the very helpful Mint link. If the process requires a resolution from the Municipal Corporation, and the resolution was passed in 2014, the process has been followed. If we'd like to change the process for name changes, let's work towards that?

Personally, jaggery village is not an inspiring name - which is what Gurgaon means. It was a slangized version of the original name anyway. Many of us used to joke about changing it to 'Gur-metro'. 

Indeed, Victor Mallet of the Financial Times has quite correctly pointed out that for a foreigner, Gurugram is much easier to pronounce than the current name. My office has an American CEO in our fashion business who calls it Grgun, to rhyme with urban. Guru is easy enough to say, and all of us know how to say gram as in kilo-gram. 

As for loss of brand equity, what happened to Bengaluru and Mumbai - did they really lose brand equity? None of the 250 odd out of the Fortune 500 companies have located here in cyber city close to the Delhi airport not because they loved the name of the city. The day Jewar airport comes up near Greater Noida, many would perhaps shift there. Today, most of us have stopped saying Bombay- even foreigners refer to it as Mumbai. Five years later, people will be comfortable with Bengaluru - but the name change has not damaged its brand equity. 

I could recall several earlier name changes in India - Cawnpore to Kanpur, Trivandrum to Thiruvananthapuram, Allepey to Allapuzha, Mysore to Mysuru and so on, including Orissa to Odisha. As my modest suggestion, let's not devote too much time to this. This time is much better used in ideating and implementing how our city can be governed better to make citizen life much easier.

 

Kind regards

Shailesh Pathak

Best wishes

On 19-Apr-2016, at 11:44, Kishore Asthana <kishore...@gmail.com> wrote:

I do not know why they could not rename it as Gurugaon, instead of Gurugram. The change would have been less traumatic and the brand name would have remained more or less intact.

Regards

Kishore Asthana