“The change in name will be to protect the interests of the state,” minister Chatterjee said. We are merely going back to the old name.”He was referring to the pre-Independence era when a united West Bengal, Bangladesh and some parts of India’s northeast were together known as Bengal. After decades of deliberation, the first concrete step of renaming the eastern state was taken on Tuesday, with the cabinet adopting a resolution. Senior bureaucrats and politicians from West Bengal often complained that they were attended to at the end of high-level meetings in Delhi where representatives were called in accordance with the alphabetical order of their states. KolkataWest Bengal may soon become Bengal in English and Bangla or Banga in Bengali.

Source: Hindustan Times August 02, 2016 10:48 UTC