This Article is From Mar 15, 2010

After Mumbai & Bengaluru, Odisha

New Delhi: On Monday, the government is to move in the Lok Sabha a constitutional amendment bill that proposes to rename Orissa as Odisha.

Home Minister P Chidambaram will table the Orissa (alteration of name) Bill 2010 in the lower house in the afternoon.

The move to introduce the bill comes months after a resolution was passed in the Orissa assembly for the change in the name of the state and its official language from Oriya to Odia.

The central government had given a nod to the proposal in September last year.

Odisha is the ancient name of the state. The name Orissa was adopted in 1950.

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