Centre notification on Orissa name change

Nov 05, 2011 - Akshaya Kumar Sahoo |

Age Correspondent

Bhubaneswar

Finally, the long wait is over. Orissa is “Odisha” now and its language Oriya is “Odia.”
The Government of India on Friday came out with the gazette notification on the passing of the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2010, and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Bill by the Parliament.
The gazette notification implies completion of the name alteration process that was kick-started with the passing of a unanimous resolution by the Orissa Legislative Assembly in November, 2009.
On March 24, 2011 the Rajya Sabha had passed the bill to change the name of Orissa to “Odisha” and an amendment in the constitution to rename “Oriya” language as “Odia”.
Both bills were passed by the Lok Sabha in November 2010. The gazette notification mentioned that the change of names came into effect from November 1, 2011. With the passing of the two bills in the Parliament, the name of the state specified as Orissa in the First Schedule of the Constitution would now be changed as Odisha.
The Orissa (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2010, and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Bill, 2010, for the change of the name of the language were moved by Union home minister P. Chidambaram early this year on the basis of resolutions passed by the Orissa Legislative Assembly.
Cultural organisations and employees of the state secretariat celebrated the gazette notification news by bursting crackers. Meanwhile, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik expressed his gratitude to President Patil for giving her consent to the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2010.

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