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It seeks removal of Hindi signboards from all Namma Metro stations and also stopping of announcements in Hindi in the metro. While no decision has been taken officially on removing Hindi from metro signage, this “extraordinary measure” of masking Hindi letters became necessary to protect the station from being vandalised, sources said. more-inThe controversy over the use of Hindi in Namma Metro took a bizarre turn on Sunday as two stations, including Kempegowda interchange at Majestic, had Hindi letters in the signage masked. Campaign spreadsOn learning about Hindi letters in the signage being masked at the two stations, the#NammaMetroHindiBeda campaign on social media picked up steam on Sunday. It is, however, not clear if the BMRCL wants to carry out this exercise across all stations with Hindi signage..