Comprehension exercise..
Read the following news and answer the questions marked red.Army’s Fort William in Kolkata set to be known as Vijay Durg
————————————————————————————–.————————–
Passage —–
In the latest step toward eliminating colonial practices and mindsets within the armed forces, Fort William in Kolkata, the headquarters of the Eastern Army Command, has been renamed Vijay Durg. Additionally, Kitchener House inside Fort William has been renamed Manekshaw House, and South Gate, formerly known as St. George’s Gate, is now Shivaji Gate.
Q1. Where is Fort William? Where is it situated?
Q2. What was the earlier name of Kolkata? (Google)
Q3. Which organization’s head quarter is situated in Fort William?
Q4. Why does the central government want to change the name of Fort Williams?
Q5. What will be the new name?
Q6. What are the other two names that will be changed? What new names will they get?
Q7. Who is S. H. F. J Manekshaw? (Google)
Wing Commander Himanshu Tiwari, the Defence Public Relations Officer in Kolkata, has said the decision was made in mid-December and all internal communications have since ceased using “Fort William”, adopting the new name instead. However, the official announcement is still pending.
Q7. Who made the announcement about the name change?
Fort William, named after King William III of England, was constructed by the British in 1781.
Q8. How and when Fort William get its name?
The new name, Vijay Durg, is derived from the oldest fort along the Sindhudurg coast in Maharashtra. It served as a naval base for the Marathas under Chhatrapati Shivaji.
Q9. What is the significance of the name ‘Vijay Durg’?
Q10. Who was Chhatrapati Shivaji? (Google)
In recent years, there have been a series of measures aimed at removing “vestiges of the colonial era” and “Indianising” military traditions and customs — an initiative Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described as freedom from the mentality of slavery.
Q11. Who mooted this idea of name change? Why he decided to change the names?
————————————————–.—————————
(Text is sourced from The Hindu dated February 6, 2025.)
Send your answers to broadbase.knowledge@gmail.com