Kerela becoming 'Kerelam'

Bombay has become Mumbai, Calcutta has become Kolkata, Madras has become Chennai, now Kerela is going to become 'Kerelam' means "land of Keras" (coconut trees). Kerala government is looking forward for changing the official spelling of Kerela to 'Keralam', it is a Malayalam word.


Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said that the final decision would be taken after discussing the matter with experts. Various quarters of cabinet have been raising the demands to change the official spelling of the state to "Keralam", mainly the issue of change in spelling was raised by Babu M Palissery (CPI-M). Palissery added that colonial spelling of place like 'Trichur' has become Thrissur, so there is no point in delaying correcting the official spelling of Kerela into Kerelam.

Though, there is a committee headed by the Revenue Minister who deals the issues of changing the names of places. But the final decision is taken after the consent of experts and other members of the panel.