Kolkata: West Bengal is now coming out from Mamata Banerjee’s regime as the BJP government is reforming the state. Instead of white and blue colors, now the state is being painted in hues of yellow and white.
A week ago, painters were seen changing the streets from TMC’s signature white and blue to yellow and white in the busiest streets of Kolkata, embarking a new political chapter.
Following the formation of the #BJP government in Bengal, roads that were earlier painted in blue and white are now being repainted in white and yellow. Visuals from Kolkata’s Red Road area show the work currently underway. pic.twitter.com/viksHzHOBc
— Piyali Mitra (@Plchakraborty) May 9, 2026
In a post shared on Monday, the BJP West Bengal said that what the state couldn’t deliver in 15 years under the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the ‘double engine’ government has started showing it in its very first week. It shared a list of works that the BJP government has undertaken to carry out, including the painting of road barricades and civic infrastructure in internationally accepted yellow and white hues, replacing the white and blue pattern.
Any specific international standards for painting civic infra?
There is one single global rulebook for painting road barricades or civic infrastructure, but many of the countries follow a certain combination of traffic engineering standards and visibility/ safety codes.
Road barricades and safety barriers are typically painted using high contrast warning colors, such as –
- Red+white = Road closures, danger zones, stop / obstruction warnings
- Yellow+black = Hazard markings, medians, pillars, edges, crash barriers
In India, most of the barricades are usually painted in white and yellow with faint hues of red in between.
For civic infrastructure such as flyovers, poles, dividers, and bridges the common international practice is black-yellow chevrons on corners, pillars, and impact zones and neutral coatings (grey / white) for aesthetics, with specific markings for hazards at critical points.
In India, these practices are generally adapted through Indian Roads Congress and state PWD/ Municipal standards, often borrowing from global traffic safety norms.
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