NEW
DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday cleared legislation seeking to rename Orissa as Odisha and the language spoken in
the state as Odia from Oriya.
The bill to alter the name of the eastern state
was introduced in this year's budget session and was passed on the first day of
the month-long winter session by electronic balloting.
MPs overwhelmingly supported the constitutional
amendment bill to do away with the legacy of British name given to the state.
The central government had received a proposal
from the Orissa government in 2008 after the state assembly moved a bill to
change both names in deference to the manner in which the name of the state is
pronounced in the local language.
The state is called Udisa in Hindi and Orissa in
English, and the language Udiya in Hindi and Oriya in
English as per the constitution.
This required an amendment to the constitution and
had to be approved by two-thirds majority of the house.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who moved the bill,
said the house was honouring the wishes of the people of the state by clearing
the legislation.
Many Indian cities and states have been renamed
after independence, including Kanpur (formerly Cawnpore), Thiruvananthapuram
(Trivandrum), Mumbai (Bombay),
Chennai (Madras), Kolkata (Calcutta), Pune (Poona), Kochi (Cochin) and North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) to Arunachal Pradesh.
Courtesy: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Orissa-is-now-Odisha-Oriya-is-Odia/articleshow/6894654.cms
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