The Assam Sahitya Sabha, AASU and many state orgainsations instructed all the Government offices, commercial, semi-commercial and private institutions in the state to use Assamese as primary language on their hoardings and signboards.

But, spelling mistake in several signboards of Government departments have stood uncorrected in the city for almost 1 year. The Assamese translations of the English words were "gibberish."

There were pictures of this doing the rounds on Social media,which were shared by many upset netizens in the city.