KOLKATA: West Bengal authorities on Thursday made it obligatory for all authorities and govt-aided colleges to sing the state music, ‘Banglar Mati, Banglar Jal', at morning assemblies. A notification, issued by the state secondary training board to heads of all higher major and secondary colleges, requested them to “take vital motion for usually singing the state music on the morning meeting mandatorily”.“The well-known music written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1905 is now to be sung as a prayer music (prarthana sangeet) at the start of every day in each govt and govt-aided faculty in Bengal,” state training minister Bratya Basu posted on X on Thursday. The “common singing of the nationwide anthem, additionally written by the poet”, together with the state music, could be “a catalyst for social and communal unity”, Basu added.‘Banglar Mati', Tagore's ode to Bengal, was composed in 1905 in assist of the motion towards the British colonial ruler's 1905 resolution to partition Bengal.CM Mamata Banerjee had organised a residents' conference in Sept 2023 to decide on an acceptable melody as Bengal's “state music”. That conference – comprising representatives from political events, non secular leaders and outstanding residents – overwhelmingly favoured “Banglar Mati”. An meeting session later that yr adopted a decision, making it the state music. Bengal then issued an order, making it obligatory in any respect state capabilities together with the nationwide anthem.Thursday's order comes within the backdrop of a political conflict between Trinamool and BJP over the SIR in Bengal.
