In a move to shed British-era legacy, it has been decided to change the names of roads and colonies in the more than a century-old Delhi Cantonment. The renaming would honour Indian soldiers, gallantry awardees, including Param Vir Chakra (PVC) recipients, and Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw.Sources said the process of renaming had begun, with a list of new names having been finalised. This is part of the ongoing effort to shed the colonial-era legacy of the Indian armed forces.The cantonment, located in southwest Delhi, had come up in 1914, three years after the British moved the capital from Kolkata to Delhi.As part of the renaming, an old name, Parade Road, has been retained. The upcoming new Sena Bhawan is located on the road.However, the following names are scheduled to change: Tigris Road, Mall Road, Cassel Road, Maude Road, Lorry Road, Gymnasium Road, Probyn Road and Kotwali Road.These will be replaced with the following names: Hoshiar Singh Marg, Arun Khetrapal Marg, Manekshaw Marg, Thimayya Marg Extn, Ramaswamy Parameshwaran Marg, Padmapani Acharya Marg, Shaitan Singh Marg and Capt Anuj Nayyar Marg.Maj Ramaswamy Parameswaran was awarded a PVC for the Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka. Lt Arun Khetrapal and Col Hoshiar Singh are PVC awardees of the 1971 India-Pak war. Maj Shaitan Singh was awarded a PVC for his bravery in the 1962 war with China.Maj Padmapani Acharya and Capt Anuj Nayyar are awarded the Maha Vir Chakra for bravery in the Kargil conflict with Pakistan in 1999. General KS Thimayya was the Army Chief from 1957 to 1961.The renaming will also include a change of name for Baird Place, Kirby Place, Nicholson Line, Nicholson Range, Kingsway Camp and Khyber Lines. The new names would be Anuj Nayyar Vihar, Kenuguruse Vihar, Joginder Singh Vihar, Digendra Kumar Vihar, Taurus Range and Abdul Hamid Vihar.Subedar Joginder Singh and Company Quartermaster Havildar Abdul Hamid were PVC awardees of the 1962 war and the 1965 war with Pakistan, respectively.In December last year, President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the Param Vir Dirgha at Rashtrapati Bhavan. It has the portraits of all 21 PVC awardees on display and replaced the portraits of British ADCs.