Mumbai

Jagannath Sunkersett

Balasaheb Thackeray

The state cabinet government approved renamingCentral Terminus station as Nana Shankarseth Terminus Station or(as was spelt then). He was one of the first directors of India's first railway company. The approval will now go to the Minister and Ministry of Railways as a proposal on which they will further take a call.Bureaucrats said that the proposal was moved by transport ministry headed by Anil Parab. Lateused to speak highly of Sunkersett. He had asked the BMC to name the Dadar TT flyover after Sunkersett and the BMC had unveiled a statue of him at Nana Chowk.Thackeray used to always mention how Britishers used to object to the burning funeral pyres at Marine Lines crematorium and Sunkesett built a wall, due to which Britishers could not see the burning pyres.