{"id":32262,"date":"2018-10-29T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32262"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:47:18","slug":"bengal-unveils-official-state-emblem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bengal-unveils-official-state-emblem\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal unveils official state emblem\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/west-bengal-gets-a-state-emblem\/article22377943.ece\"><strong>Bengal unveils official state emblem<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official emblem of\u00a0West Bengal was unveiled by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on January 5. The emblem designed by Ms. Banerjee features the Ashoka Pillar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chief Minister unveils the emblem at the State Secretariat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had to do this (create the State emblem) 70 years after Independence because it has never been thought of before<\/p>\n<p>No one here thought that every State should have its individuality the Chief Minister said during the ceremony to unveil emblem at the State Secretariat Nabanna<\/p>\n<p><strong>Centre\u2019s approval<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She also said that the West Bengal government received the Centre\u2019s approval for the emblem on January 3<\/p>\n<p>The design was sent for Central approval in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To be used in official work of the state<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Describing the occasion as \u201chistoric\u201d, the Chief Minister said that henceforth the State emblem can be used in all the official work and documents of the State government<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name of the State to be changed soon too<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As for changing the name of the State, the Chief Minister said that it will be announced as soon as the Centre approves it. \u201cWe have also sent a request to the Centre about changing the name of the State. Discussions are being held and as soon as we get the official approval we will announce it,\u201d she said. Her Cabinet decided in September 2017 that the\u00a0State\u2019s name will be Bangla\u00a0in all the languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengal unveils official state emblem\u00a0 Context The official emblem of\u00a0West Bengal was unveiled by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on January 5. The emblem designed by Ms. Banerjee features the Ashoka Pillar. Chief Minister unveils the emblem at the State Secretariat. We had to do this (create the State emblem) 70 years after Independence because it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bengal-unveils-official-state-emblem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bengal unveils official state emblem\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704376865},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}