The state transport department wants to rename two Metro stations on the Airport-Garia line near Sector V, an official of the Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) said.

The station, that was named Bowlers’ Den earlier as it is close to Nicco Park and Bowlers’ Den, according to a memo issued in February, will be renamed Nalban.

The last station which has been built just before entering New Town from the Sector V side, near the Webel intersection, now called Salt Lake Sector V, is proposed to be renamed Nabadiganta.

NDITA chairman Debashis Sen said Sector V was officially known as Nabadiganta and NDITA provided all the civic services to the state’s IT hub. “For a long time we, at NDITA, have been trying to have one of the Metro stations named after the township as it passed through the NDITA area. Now the state transport department has also agreed and given a go- ahead,” said Sen.

The renaming of the Nalban and Nabadiganta stations is in continuation of renaming the nine stations of the New Garia-airport route that was started in January. Officials said that a lot of changes and development had been happening in both Sector V and New Town since the Metro construction began. “The provisional names were given by the railways after the nearest landmark or place. But with the development of the area, these names were not matching the place,” the official added.

According to another official, the Metro authorities too were being kept in the loop.

A Metro spokesperson on the other hand said that they had yet to receive any formal request for renaming the stations.