New Delhi: East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 metro station has been renamed as Shree Ram Mandir Mayur Vihar. This station is on the Pink Line delhi metro.The renamed station connects several key areas of the capital, including Anand Vihar Railway Station, Rajouri Gardens, Rajpat Nagar and Delhi Cantonment, making it an important transit point for daily commuters.Explaining the reasons behind the name change, Sanatan Dharm Sabha Mayur Vihar chairman RP Agarwal said the demand has been pending for years.“Our committee has been working on this for the past three years. We have sent a letter to Virendra Sachdeva who forwarded it to the chief minister. This is an important achievement for us. When the metro train departs from Mayur Vihar Phase-I, we will announce that the next stop will be ‘Shree Ram Mandir Mayur Vihar’. This will increase the visibility of our Ram temple,” Agarwal said.Govind Singh Pawar, patron of Sanatan Dharm Sabha and vice-president of Delhi Senior Citizen Welfare Association, highlighting the ease of commuting, said earlier names often created confusion.“People used to confuse Mayur Vihar Phase 1 and Mayur Vihar Pocket 1. The BJP government that preached Sanatan Dharma has rectified this. The people are very happy with the decision,” he said.The name change is in line with a wider policy of changing tube station names to better reflect local character and reduce confusion for passengers. Last year, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced the renaming of three metro stations to improve passenger convenience. The Pitampura metro station on the Red Line has been renamed Madhuban Chowk metro station, while the two stations on the RK Puram-Janakpuri corridor under construction will be called North Pitampura-Prashant Vihar metro station and Haiderpur Village metro station.Addressing the public at the time, Gupta said the changes were linked to local history and identity. She later wrote on X that the renaming was “for the convenience of passengers” and to clearly define the community.
