April 16, 2013
A newly built railway terminus in Kurla, a suburb of western India’s city of Mumbai, was officially opened. (Along with being the most populous city of India, Mumbai is the capital of the country’s state of Maharashtra.) This terminus was the replacement for a smaller and dilapidated station complex that had long been in place there. That original version was known as Kurla Terminus until 1996, when it was renamed in memory of Lokmanya Tilak (1856-1920). A native of this region of India, Tilak was a key figure in the Indian independence movement; Mahatama Gandhi (1869-1948) hailed him as the “Maker of Modern India.”
The present-day version of Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) was designed by Mumbai-based architect P.K. Das (born in 1955). Those taking part in the inauguration of this structure included Pawan Kumar Bansal (born in 1948), who was India’s minister of railways from October 2012 to May 2013.
LTT is managed by the Central Railway, one of the 19 zones of Indian Railways. This facility is one of five railway terminals within Mumbai.
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For more information on Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokmanya_Tilak_Terminus
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