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Lok Sabha approves Orissa's name as 'Odisha', Oriya as 'Odia' | On the first day of Parliament's Winter Session, the Lok Sabha here today passed the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Bill and approved the name of Orissa state to 'Odisha', and its language to 'Odia' from Oriya. The Orissa (Alteration of
Name) Bill, seeking change of the State's name, was introduced in the 2010 Budget
Session. It was passed by electronic voting in Lok Sabha today. "The Motion is
carried by the majority of the total membership of the house and by majority of
not less than two-thirds of the members present in voting. The Bill (Orissa (Alteration
of Name) Bill, 2010) as amended is passed by the requisite majority in accordance
with provision of Article 368 of the Constitution," said Meira Kumar, Lok Sabha
Speaker. 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 till date was called 'Udisa' in Hindi and 'Orissa' in English, and its
language called 'Udiya' in Hindi and 'Oriya' in English as per the Constitution.
There have been many cities or States which have been renamed after independence,
including Kanpur, formerly called Cawnpore, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Mumbai
(Bombay), Chennai (Madras), Kolkata (Calcutta), Pune (Poona), Kochi (Cochin) and
the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), which became Arunachal Pradesh.
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