The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will rename a section of Sutthisan Road as Inthamara and fix the household database to reflect the change, following an Administrative Court ruling.
The BMA's Department of Administration and Registration is working to make changes in compliance with the July 20 ruling by the Administrative Court which ordered a section of the Sutthisan Road to be renamed Inthamara.
Department chief Phanupong Suthisan said his agency will outline what changes need to be made and forward the findings to City Hall.
According to the court, the road should be renamed for the sake of historical accuracy. In the past, the road running from Saphan Khwai to Lat Phrao was split, with the first section named Sutthisan and the rest Inthamara.
However, in 2004, the BMA ordered the entire road to be called Sutthisan in line with its policy to standardise the names of the roads and sois throughout the 50 districts of Bangkok. The BMA argued Sutthisan was more widely known.
The move prompted a petition by the Inthamara descendants with the Administrative Court ruling against the family name being dropped.
Mr Phanupong said that after studying the ruling, he believed the section of the road to be renamed is the stretch from the Saphan Khwai intersection to the Sutthisan intersection, which is close to Soi Inthamara 59.
The BMA has 180 days of the ruling being handed down to make the move official. Mr Phanupong said the district office will start with replacing the road signs. After that, the office will inform residents living along the stretch of the road to bring in their citizenship ID cards and domicile registration papers for correction.
The cards and papers currently specify Sutthisan as the name of the road but the office will alter its domicile database, he said. However, the department chief said the residents did not need to rush to amend their cards and papers as the database will soon be rectified.
Mr Phanupong insisted, however, the BMA has no authority in deciding whether to change the name of the Sutthisan subway station as it only has the legal power to create or alter the names of public locations such as roads, sois, rivers and canals.
The subway station is a commercial space and it is up to its owner, which is the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand, whether to rename the station.