Watch | What’s the Kannada signboard controversy all about?
Moreover its Silicon Valley tag, if there may be one factor Bengaluru is outlined by, it’s its cosmopolitan nature. Lakhs of individuals from totally different components of the nation have made the Metropolis their residence.
Whereas many issues have united the individuals right here, what has usually been a dividing issue is the linguistic debate.
This subject has flared up now and again in Bengaluru. Within the final week of December, the members of a Kannada outfit, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, vandalised non-Kannada boards in numerous components of town. Quickly after, the BBMP introduced that every one title boards within the metropolis ought to have not less than 60% Kannada and the remaining could possibly be any language. The deadline for a similar is February 28.
We requested retailers and proprietors throughout town what they really feel about this rule.
The Hindu’s reporters, TR Jahnavi and KV Aditya Bharadwaj, talk about the historical past of the linguistic debate; the continuing confusion and the ordinance which was introduced by CM Siddaramaiah to the Kannada Language Complete Growth Act 2022; the challenges retailers might face in following the rule and what lies forward.
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Additionally learn:The lengthy battle to make Kannada necessary in signboards in Karnataka
Videography and manufacturing: Ravichandran N.
