New Delhi: Gurgaon, the corporate hub of Haryana on the outskirts of Delhi, will now be known as 'Gurugram'.
The decision was taken by the BJP government claiming that people of the area have been making a demand in this regard.
An official spokesman said the decision to change the name was taken on the basis of the representations received in several fora that it would be appropriate to rename Gurgaon as 'Gurugram', an official spokesman said.
The Haryana government's decision to rename the city drew sharp criticism on the microblogging site - Twitter as most of them questioned the logic of renaming the city.
After milligram kilogram its #Gurugram#GurgaontoGurugram
&; Sk8er Boy (@TusharTayade18) April 12, 2016
#Gurugram more like baba ramdev's instagram
&; Aarushi (@the_weirdo__) April 12, 2016
भाई लाख टके की बात ये है कि आप उसका नाम होनोलुलू रख दे तब भी कहानी तो बिजली, पानी, सड़क की क़िल्लत की है #Gurugram
&; Lord BaltiBottom (@mdhvv) April 12, 2016
Pic 1: #Gurgaon
Pic 2: #Gurugram&; PhD in Bakchodi !! (@Atheist_Krishna) April 12, 2016
After gurgaon changed to #Gurugram, Indore to be named as #instagram and Mumbai to #miligram
&; Himanshu Rai ツ (@aslihimanshu) April 12, 2016
Time just can't get better than this. Rakesh Roshan to change his name to Steven Spielberg & Shirish Kunder to Christopher Nolan
&; Debarati (@debarati_m) April 12, 2016
Looking at number of smokers in Gurgaon, it should be GudangGaram.#Gurugram #GurgaonNameChange #Gurgaon
&; Saurabh Agarwal (@saurabhhagarwal) April 12, 2016
Legend has it that Gurgaon derived its name from the name of Guru Dronacharya, the master of archery in Mahabharata who tutored the Pandavas.
The village was given as gurudakshina to him by his students -- the Pandavas -- and hence it came to be known as Guru-gram, which in course of time is said to have got distorted to Gurgaon.
"Haryana is a historic land of the Bhagwat Gita and Gurgaon had been a centre of learning," the spokesman said.
