After 2016 attempt, no proposal to change names of HCs: Govt

August 03, 2023 18:46

A view of Bombay high court

There is no proposal at present to change the name of various high courts, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.

In July 2016, the government had brought the 'High Courts (Alteration of Names) Bill to change the names of the high courts of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras as high courts of Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai respectively.

Later, some fresh names were added to the list.

But amid divergent views, the bill could not be taken further and lapsed due to dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said in a written reply.

Giving out the history of the proposal to alter the names of some of high courts, he said with the enactment of the city of Madras (Alteration of Name) Act, 1996, the city of Madras was renamed as Chennai, following which the Tamil Nadu government sent a proposal for changing the name of the Madras high court to the high court of Chennai in 1997.

Since the names of the cities of Bombay and Calcutta were also changed to Mumbai and Kolkata, and the respective high courts of the states are located in these cities, it was considered appropriate to change the names of these two high courts as well, he pointed out.

"The government brought a legislation titled 'The High Courts (Alteration of Names) Bill, 2016' regarding changing the names of High Courts of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras as high courts of Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai respectively, and the same was introduced in the Lok Sabha on July 19, 2016," he said. -- PTI

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