Chief Minister Eknath Shinde after taking over the Shiv Sena has passed a resolution to rename the iconic Churchgate station as Chintamanrao Deshmukh station.
In 1943, the Reserve Bank of India got its first Indian governor in Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, a civil servant luminary who went on to do many great things for the country in the early years of India's Independence. He also become India’s finance minister during 1950-56.