The name of Indian Railways\u2019 Habibganj station in Bhopal has been changed to Rani Kamlapati railway station. Last week, the Madhya Pradesh state government proposed this to the Centre, which gave the clearance without any delay. This is to coincide with the railway station\u2019s inauguration, which has been redeveloped at a cost of around Rs 100 crore with private participation. On Monday, the railway station will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to an IE report. The MP government said the station renaming is to honour the memory as well as sacrifices made by a queen of the Gond community.<\/p>\n
Who was Rani Kamlapati?
\nRani Kamlapati was Nizam Shah\u2019s widow. Shah\u2019s Gond dynasty ruled the then Ginnorgarh, 55 kilometres from Bhopal, in the 18th century. The famous seven-storeyed Kamlapati Palace in Bhopal was built by Nizam Shah in her name. According to CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Kamlapati was the \u201clast Hindu queen of Bhopal\u201d. The queen performed great work in the area of water management and also, set up temples and parks, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The name of Indian Railways\u2019 Habibganj station in Bhopal has been changed to Rani Kamlapati railway station. Last week, the Madhya Pradesh state government proposed this to the Centre, which gave the clearance without any delay. This is to coincide with the railway station\u2019s inauguration, which has been redeveloped at a cost of around Rs 100 crore with private participation. On Monday, the railway station will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to an IE report. The MP government said the station renaming is to honour the memory as well as sacrifices made by a queen of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}