Union railway minister Piyush Goyal has assured local MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha that he will consider a proposal to rename Mumbai Central station after Indian Railway pioneer Jagannath Sunkershet (popularly called Nana), if it comes to him from the Maharashtra government.

A report in this paper stated that Surendra Sunkershet, a descendent of Nana, welcomed the decision, but said that no one had conveyed this to their family officially yet. Jagannath Sunkershet, popularly known as Nana, was one of the two Indian founders of the railways in the country. His face can be seen on the facade of the iconic world heritage site of Mumbai CSMT. The Sunkershet family visits it every year in July to observe his death anniversary. Nana's supporters wanted to get Mumbai Central named after him, as his bungalow was in Girgaum, close to this station.