Fort William, headquarters of Army Eastern Command, is now Vijay Durg

KOLKATA: Fort William , the headquarters of Indian Army's Eastern Command, has been renamed Vijay Durg as part of Modi govt's ongoing attempts to "free" the nation of colonial imprints , report Subhro Niyogi & Tamaghna Banerjee. The name-change decision was taken mid-Dec, Wing Commander Himanshu Tiwari, chief public relations officer, ministry of defence, Kolkata, told TOI on Tuesday. "The order came in the second week of Dec but is yet to be formally announced.

In our internal communication, we have stopped using Fort William," Tiwari added. While the historic fort built by British in 1781 was named after King William III, it has been rechristened after Vijay Durg, the oldest fort along Sindhudurg coast in Maharashtra that served as impregnable naval base of Marathas in Chhatrapati Shivaji 's time..