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Kolkata:
The Kolkata Municipal Company (KMC) has made it obligatory for each business institution within the metropolis to place up signboards in Bengali together with different languages, an official mentioned.
The civic physique is decided to implement the utilization of Bengali in signages, and has set a tentative deadline of February 21, 2025, to provoke the method, he mentioned.
Municipal Secretary Swapan Kundu mentioned the company is in touch with the house owners of retailers, eating places and different enterprise institutions to make sure that names and different details about the shops are written in Bengali along with another language.
In October, TMC Councillor Biswarup Dey had mentioned at a KMC session that each one signboards in private and non-private workplaces ought to have Bengali textual content other than different languages and all notifications, letters and paperwork of the municipal company must also be revealed in Bengali.
Dey had made the proposal within the wake of Bengali receiving the excellence of a classical language by the Centre on October 3, together with Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit.
KMC Mayor Firhad Hakim, too, had earlier mentioned he’ll urge non-public promoting companies and retailers to make use of Bengali of their signages.
“I’ve nothing in opposition to using Hindi, English or different languages in banners, festoons, signages and such modes of communication. However, Bengali must also be there together with the others,” Hakim had mentioned.
In an analogous transfer by the KMC in 2007, the then Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya had issued notices to make store house owners mandatorily use Bengali together with different languages in signboards, however it didn’t materialise.
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