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LUCKNOW: In a serious fake pas that will snowball into an enormous controversy bringing the UP authorities beneath hearth, the upper schooling fee authorities of Uttar Pradesh went on to vary the identify of a well-known Urdu Poet Akbar Allahabadi following the renaming of Allahabad metropolis to Prayagraj. Now Akbar Allahabadi is named Akbar ‘Praygaraji’.
The change was effected on the official web site of the UP Greater Training Service Fee. The identify of the long-lasting author was modified from Akbar Allahabadi to Akbar Prayagraji on the Fee’s ‘About Allahabad’ part of the web site.
As per experiences, the name-changing course of has irked various writers and poets, whereas the President of the fee Prof Ishwar Sharan Vishwakarma tried to distance himself from the controversy, feigning ignorance saying any such growth was not in his data.
Vishwakarma whereas, interacting with media individuals, stated that he would ask the authorities involved to look into the matter and ratify the error if any.
It doesn’t appear that the change was made by mistake because the identify of different poets with the final identify Allahabadi have additionally been altered and made Prayagraji. The UP Greater Training Service Fee web site incorporates a part known as ‘About Allahabad’ whereby transient details about the historical past of town will be discovered. The part, moreover Akbar Allahabadi, has the modified names of different famend poets like Teg Allahabadi as Teg Prayagraji, Rashid Allahabadi as Rashid Prayagraji as nicely. Nevertheless, the officers don’t rule out a technical glitch.
