State Bureau, Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced in the Assembly on Monday that the state government will give priority to the Bengali language in all government related work from September 1.

The CM said that file handling, correspondence, and administrative work in all government departments in the state will be conducted in Bengali in a phased manner. The Chief Minister made this announcement a day after he received a letter written in Bengali from Union Home Minister Amit Shah regarding the preservation, promotion, development, and promotion of the study of the Bengali language. The Chief Minister made the announcements while reading the letter in the state assembly.

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Amit Shah was in Kolkata on Sunday, the final day of his three-day visit to Bengal. He inaugurated India's first newly built Museum of Word at the National Library in Kolkata. On this occasion, the Home Minister had praised Bengal's language and culture.

The Chief Minister informed the House that the Home Minister had written to him on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of the great educationist, nationalist leader, and thinker, Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, urging him to promote the widespread use of the Bengali language in Bengal. The letter suggested greater use of Bengali in government work, civil services, law and order and administrative processes.

Suvendu clarified that official correspondence in all departments of the Bengal government will now be conducted primarily in Bengali. However, Hindi will also be used alongside Bengali for communications with the central government.

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The Chief Minister said that necessary preparations are underway to ensure the effective use of the mother tongue in all government offices across the state. He reiterated that the process of fully implementing the Bengali language in administrative work will begin on September 1.

He also announced that the report of the Justice Sushanta Chatterjee Commission, constituted by the previous government, will be made public on Monday evening. The report will provide a full account of the commission's recommendations, including which suggestions were implemented and which were not.