Signboards with village names written in Hindi found blackened

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A smudged signboard adjacent   Thanjavur.

A smudged signboard adjacent Thanjavur. | Photo Credit: R. Vengadesh

A smudged signboard adjacent   Thanjavur.

A smudged signboard adjacent Thanjavur. | Photo Credit: R. Vengadesh

A smudged signboard connected  the roadside adjacent   Thanjavur.

A smudged signboard connected the roadside adjacent Thanjavur. | Photo Credit: R. Vengadesh

Signboards with names of villages written successful Hindi installed on the roadside connected the outskirts of Thanjavur municipality were recovered smudged with achromatic overgarment connected Tuesday.

The signboards, displaying the names of villages successful Tamil, English and Hindi, were installed recently. The names written successful Hindi were recovered blackened successful astatine slightest 3 places, 1 indicating the absorption to Vallam Junction and those astatine Melavasthasavadi and Thirukkanoorpatti.

On Monday, a radical of persons and members of Makkal Nala Peravai, submitted a memorandum to the territory administration, seeking removal of signboards carrying Hindi words on with Tamil and English installed astatine immoderate of the villages connected the outskirts of Thanjavur town.

In the memorandum, they said names successful Tamil, English and Hindi connection were displayed lone astatine villages having railway stations. But recently, signboards had appeared astatine places specified arsenic Vallam, Melavasthachavadi, Thirukkanurpatti, Maappillainaicken Patti, Arputhapuram, Manjapettai and different hamlets located on the roads.

It was an enactment of imposition of Hindi connected non-Hindi speaking people, they said and urged the territory medication to region the signboards installed on the roadsides astatine hamlets located connected the outskirts of Thanjavur town.

Published - November 04, 2025 06:06 p.m. IST

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