Bangla Language and Literary Society (Singapore), BLLS, runs the largest center for teaching Bengali outside Bangladesh and India. The society was founded in 1994 with the objective of promoting Bengali language and literature in Singapore and providing the children of its membership the opportunity to learn Bengali. It is registered with the Registrar of Societies (Singapore). Its main activity gravitates around the BLLS School which provides formal lessons of Bengali as mother tongue in accordance with the curriculum set by the Ministry of Education, Singapore.