New Delhi: Uttaranchal, which will now be known as Uttarakhand has got a final stamp of approval.
The renaming of the hill state, which was carved out of Uttar Pradesh in November 2000, comes into effect with President A P J Abdul Kalam giving his assent to a bill adopted by Parliament in the just concluded winter session.
The state had come into being along with Jharkhand, carved out of Bihar and Chhattisgarh from Madhya Pradesh respectively by the erstwhile BJP-led coalition which had named it Uttaranchal despite a sizable section favouring the name Uttarakhand.
AICC General Secretary Motilal Vora, in charge of party affairs in Uttarkhand, was quoted by news agency PTI as saying the assent for the Uttaranchal (Alteration of name) bill 2006,came last week.
Uttaranchal Assembly had passed the renaming bill in October and later the Union Cabinet had decided to bring the bill in winter session of Parliament, which was widely cheered in the hill state.
Opposition BJP had criticised the move ahead of the Assembly elections in the state and had said the renaming would cost Rs 300 to Rs 400 crore.
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