Mumbai: The country cabinet on Wednesday decided to make it mandatory for shops to have a marathi name board.
Shops in the state will display a signboard in Marathi in uppercase letters.
Even if the store has one employee, it will have a Marathi name, the chairman of the Minister of Uddhav Thackeray tweeted.
The Minister of State Subhash Desai who held the Marathi language portfolio said, “We get complaints of many stores that do not apply the rules, so we decided to make this amendment in ACT.” The association of retail traders has protested the step.
“The High Court has lived a larger font on Marathi’s board after we went to court in 2001.
It cannot be passed in assembly because the problem is sub-too,” said Viren Shah from the Federation of Retail Traders Association.
“Shop owners suffer in pandemic …
[this] the price is a lot of money.
We asked the state government to keep the shop owner from the political board of Marathi,” he said.
The cabinet also decided that liquor stores should not be named after a great man and a fortress.
Marathi sign board moves opposed by retail traders
