UDHAMPUR: According to officials, Captain Tushar Mahajan has been honoured with a new name for the Udhampur railway station in Jammu & Kashmir. In February 2016, during a terror attack on the JKEDI building in the Pulwama district of South Kashmir, Captain Tushar Mahajan, an officer in the 9 Para of the Army’s special forces, gained martyrdom after shooting a terrorist while defending his fellow soldiers. The Lieutenant Governor’s office officially approved the station’s renaming, according to the officials. “Sanction is hereby accorded to the renaming of ‘Udhampur railway station’ as ‘Martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan railway station’ in district Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir,” Sanjeev Verma, Commissioner Secretary, General Administration Department (GAD), stated in an order released here on Thursday night.On September 6, according to the officials, the renaming of Udhampur railway station received clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). On September 6, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh, who represents the Kathua-Udhampur parliamentary district in the Lok Sabha, tweeted the judgement. The Central government was requested to rename the station by the residents of Udhampur.
