Bengaluru: With the official deadline to have display boards in Kannada by establishments set to end by November 30, BBMP has already sprung in action urging upon the shop owners to use Kannada on their sign boards.
Mayor Sampath Raj told DC, “Joint commissioners of all BBMP zones have been directed to ensure that the establishments in their zones put up boards in Kannada too.”
BBMP is acting upon the direction given by KDA which says that at least 60 percent of the space in the display boards should bear Kannada language. Also recently BBMP Commissioner Manjunath Prasad had written to Mantri Mall and directed them to use Kannada in their commercial boards. He wrote the letter after he found that establishments in Mantri Mall had not used Kannada anywhere in its display boards both inside and outside the mall. “Joint commissioners have already started to spread the message and are urging upon the shopkeepers to have boards in Kannada," Sampath said and added that many shopkeepers do not know that there is a government rule which mandates the use of Kannada.
Recently, during an awareness campaign our officials conveyed the rule and the shopkeepers were quick to change the board within an hour's time. Shopkeepers are not voluntarily ignoring Kan-nada. By the end of November we wish to get all the shopkeepers to include Kannada in their boards, Mr Sampath said.
