The Lansdowne Cantonment Board has passed a proposal to rename Lansdowne town, a popular tourist spot in the Pauri district of Uttarakhand, as 𒊎Jaswantgarh after the 1962 India-China war hero Jaswant Singh, sources said.
A propo⛦sal to this effect was passed by the board earlier this week at a meeting chaired by its president ꦆBrigadier Vijay Mohan Chaudhary, they said.
The recommendation has b𝔉een sent to the Defence Ministry which had sought proposals from all cantonment boards to ওrechristen places named during the British era, they said.
The town 🍌was called "Kalaun ka Danda", meaning a hill surrounded by dark clouds, before❀ it was being named Lansdowne after the then Viceroy 132 years ago.
However, the Lansdowne canto🧔nment board has mentioned that locals are oppose🧸d to renaming of the hill station.
Still, if it h🐼as got to be changed then it would be most logical to rename it as Jaswantgarh after theꦛ 1962 India-China war hero who was posthumously awarded the Paramveer Chakra, the board said in its proposal.
Jaswant Singh hailed from the Baria village in Beeronkhal area of Pa൩uri district. He attained martyrdom on November 17 at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh during the India-China conflict of 1962 after preventing the Chinese troops from adva෴ncing for 72 hours.
He was deployed at the time in the 4th batꦚtalion of Garhwal Rifles at Tawang.
Chief Minisꩵter Pushkar Singh Dhami has also said earlier that British era names reminiscent of Ind⛎ia's colonial past will be changed.
