[Anubad] West Bengal government recognizes Odia and other five non-Bengali languages

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In a significant development the West Bengal government decided to 
recognize six languages, other than Bengali, spoken by linguistic 
minorities in the state, on Thursday.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee told media, "We have taken a decision 
today to notify Urdu, Hindi, Nepali, Oriya, Santhali and Gurmukhi as the 
language of the linguistic minorities so that work can be done in these 
languages wherever there is scope."

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