Against the backdrop of the Lok Sabha elections, the state government has approved a proposal to rename eight railway stations on the suburban line. The renaming of the Mumbai Central station after 19th-century philanthropist Jagannath Shankarsheth has been pending with the Union government for the past four years. An organisation, Nana Shankarsheth Pratishthan, will write to the state and Central government, demanding that the latter approve the new name for the station on April 16, which is celebrated as Indian Rail Transport Day.

On Wednesday, the state cabinet approved the proposal to rename Currey Road station as Lalbaug, Sandhurst Road as Dongri, Marine Lines as Mumbadevi and Charni Road as Girgaon. Cotton Green will be renamed Kalachowki, Dockyard as Mazgaaon and King’s Circle as Tirthankar Parswanath. The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) approved the proposal for the renaming of Mumbai Central station in March 2020. The state forwarded this proposal to the Railway Ministry.