The Union Home Ministry has given approval to change the name of Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district to Ahilyanagar. State Revenue Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil welcomed the decision and called it a "historic event". Notably, in March 2024, the Maharashtra cabinet had proposed the renaming of the district after Punyashlok Ahilyabai Holkar, the 18th-century queen of the Maratha-Malwa kingdom.