With the city’s educational institutes and IT companies attracting a lot of people from other states, the ubiquitous Marathi signboards at state government offices are leaving many visitors baffled.

All greek to them: The display board of the superintendent engineer’s office at the divisional commissioner’s building leaves migrants confused. All the boards in the building are in Marathi, as is the the nameplate outside District Collector Saurabh Rao’s office (below). Pics/Mohan Patil

Rajesh Kumar, a National Eligibility Test (NET) student from Bihar, was visiting the old Zilla Parishad building to attest photocopies of his educational certificates. He needed to get it verified from a Class-I officer, but the names and designations in the local language outside the offices left him confused.