Following a proposal from the Delhi government, the Delhi Development Authority is likely to amend the nomenclature of the area from Lutyens’ Bungalow Zone (LBZ) to the Imperial City of New Delhi. The Government is mulling to rename Lutyens' Bungalow Zone as Imperial City of New Delhi while the Walled City of (old) Delhi will be rechristened as Imperial City of Shahjahanabad. It must be remembered that these two areas are among six heritage zones notified in Master Plan of Delhi-2021. Sources were quoted by Hindu's report, as saying, 'the proposal, which is likely to come up for clearance in the Delhi Development Authority's board meeting this week, has been mooted with an eye on the efforts to earn ‘heritage tag' for the area from the UNESCO.'

Besides Lutyens’ Zone, the nomenclature the Walled City of Delhi, Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi) is set to be changed to the Imperial City of Shahjahnabad.

The LBZ and the Walled City of Delhi are two of the six heritage zones notified in MPD 2021.

Sources said the proposal, which is likely to come up for clearance in the Authority’s board meeting this week, has been mooted with an eye on the efforts to earn ‘heritage tag’ for the area from the UNESCO. 

“The nomination dossier, seeking heritage tag for Lutyens’ Zone, sent to UNESCO by names the area as Imperial City of New Delhi. Similarly, the Walled City of Delhi, Shahjahanabad is named in the dossier as the Imperial City of Shahjahanabad. In order to weed out any inconsistency when the UNESCO team is going through the verification process, a request has been made to the Authority to rename these areas in the MPD-2021,” an official said.