Anti-Hindi agitations of West Bengal
Series of protests in the eastern Indian state
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Since the end of the second decade of the 21st century, various organizations have organized road meetings and agitations against the use of Hindi or Hindi and English languages except Bengali on the nameplates of various institutions of West Bengal, national highways, Banks and Kolkata Metro.
History
1980s
Amra Bangali started a political program in the 1980s to promote the Bengali language. However, the party's activities were mainly confined to the northern part of the West Bengal.
Protests by Bangla Pokkho
Agitations of 2021
The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science issued a notification to the staffs of institution on 19 March 2021, stating that 55% of written communication in institutions should be done in Hindi. staffs organized protests against imposition of Hindi in university. Students protested by writing 'No Hindi Imposition' on the institution grounds and stood maintaining social distance. But the notification was only for administrative staff.