Maharashtra to lose more than 1000 cr after renaming city

The State of Maharashtra is said to have lost more than Rs 1000 crore with a chance of entering its first and only heritage Aurangabad city in UNESCO's world heritage city list. UNESCO is said to have withheld the proposal of heritage city of Aurangabad after its name changed as ‘Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar’. The world heritage proposal was moved by the then Fadnavis Government in 2017. If UNESCO had approved the proposal, Maharashtra would have earned over Rs 1000 crore from UNESCO and crores of tourism business from international tourists. Aurangabad would have been the second heritage city after Ahmedabad of Gujarat, if the Maharashtra government proposal had been approved by UNESCO.