[1] The emblem consists of a circle depicting a globe with the state of West Bengal highlighted by a representation of the Bengali alphabet.

The central element of the emblem was also used by the state government's Biswa Bangla campaign to promote the sale of traditional Bengali handicrafts and textiles.

[2] The current emblem was designed by Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of the state and was officially adopted in January 2018.

[5] West Bengal has one autonomous district council, the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, which adopted its own emblem in October 2014.

The emblem is a circular seal featuring a locomotive of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a woman picking tea leaves, a rhododendron flower and mountain peaks of the Himalayas surrounded by the name of the authority and two pairs of crossed Kukri daggers.