Secunderabad Cantonment Board renames 21 British-era roads after Indian heroes

The Secunderabad Cantonment Board has approved the renaming of 21 British-era roads and four bazaar areas after Indian leaders, military officers and war heroes. The initiative, aimed at removing colonial-era legacies, is expected to be implemented within a month.

Hyderabad: Shedding colonial legacies, 21 road stretches and four Bazar areas in Secunderabad Cantonment area will be named after prominent Indians and military officers and soldiers who fought in wars for the country and sacrificed their lives for the nation.

Accordingly, Lytton Road will be known as Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road, Burton Road as Santosh Babu Marg, Bolton Road renamed as Atal Bihari Vajpayee Marg and Noble Road as APJ Abdul Kalam Marg.

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The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) at its meeting, chaired by Board president, Brigadier S Rajeev, on Wednesday approved renaming of these 21 British-era roads.

The SCB’s Chief Executive Officer, Arvind Kumar Dwivedi, told ‘Telangana Today’ that the new names were approved in the Board meeting today. “The process of removing the Colonial-era names from the existing roads and installing renamed names will be done within a month,” he said.

Apart from roads, the renaming of four Bazar areas in the Cantonment limits was also approved by the Board. While doing away with the old names, the road stretches and bazaars have been named after brave military officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the nation and who fought in wars.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) had originally proposed renaming the roads across 62 Cantonment Boards in India in 2021. Many roads and buildings in these Cantonment Boards have been named after British officers and soldiers who were loyal to the British Crown.