Calcutta is turning blue
India’s eastern city of Calcutta is to be painted blue, a local minister has said.
Government buildings, flyovers, some monuments, roadside railings, and taxis should be painted a shade of light blue, a minister in the ruling Trinamul Congress government said.
Owners of private buildings will be also be requested to paint them in the same colour, the minister said.
“Our leader Mamata Banerjee has decided that the theme colour of the city will be sky blue because the motto of the new government is ‘the sky is the limit’,” urban development minister Firhad Hakim told the Indian Express newspaper.
“The owners of private buildings will also be requested to follow the same colour pattern. The necessary government orders will be issued soon.”
The colour of the city’s yellow taxis is also going to be changed to light blue and white.
Other Indian cities have colour-based themes.
The northern Indian city of Jaipur is famously dubbed the Pink City after its terracotta-colour dwellings.
In 2006, Aurangabad, a crime-infested city in the state of Bihar, was painted pink in order to uplift, according to authorities, its sagging morale.
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