Bengaluru: In an act of promoting the Kannada language, the Kannada and Culture minister Shivaraj Tangadagi has recently come forward with a bill demanding that business sign boards must now make use of 60 percent of this state language, and that this practice be followed across the state.
Also known as the Kannada Language Comprehensive Development bill, it states that boards must now use kannada language at the top to display the names of their businesses.
The state further showed its approval by introducing the bill in the assembly, with the intention of promulgating an audience.
However Governor Taawarchand Gehlot, on returning the bill, demanded that the government first present the bill in the legislature.
Foreseeing that the situation could soon result in violent protests from pro-kannada outfits and the effect this could have on businesses, CM Siddharamaiah decided to handle the matter through an ordinance.
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