Hummingbird News Service
KOLKATA, 14 MAR: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed her delight over the “victory of culture and heritage” with the London Underground accepting Bengali as a language for signboards at the Whitechapel Station.
“Proud to note that the London Tube Rail has accepted Bengali as a language of signage at Whitechapel Station, signifying the increasing global importance and strength of the 1,000-year old Bengali language,” the Trinamul Congress chairperson wrote on Twitter. Miss Banerjee added that the move underlined how the Bengali diaspora should work together in common cultural directions.
The name of the London Underground station on Whitechapel Road and Durward Street can now be seen written in Bangla besides English signboard.
The signboards in English and Bengali outside and throughout the station have been funded by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council, following a council and community-led campaign to install the signs, Mayor John Biggs tweeted. “Delighted to see bilingual signs now installed at Whitechapel station — in both English and Bangla,” he wrote.
The Whitechapel area of London houses a number of Bengali expatriates from Bangladesh and India.
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