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There has been an age long demand from various organizations as well as from civil society for change of the Name from Orissa to Odisha and Oriya to Odia; Odisha Cabinet for the 1st time resolved a proposal in this regard in June 2008. The move was passed in the Odisha Assembly on 28 August 2008.
An example is the change from English Calcutta to English Kolkata – the local Bengali name (কলকাতা Kôlkata) did not change. Such changes in English spelling may be in order to better reflect a more accurate phonetic transliteration of the local name, or may be for other reasons.
Odisha (English: / ə ˈ d ɪ s ə /; [19] Odia: ⓘ), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), [20] is a state located in Eastern India. It is the eighth-largest state by area , and the eleventh-largest by population , with over 41 million inhabitants.
The new tricolour flag with the central white band and emblem, was designed to distance itself from regional political parties and emulate the structure of the Indian Tricolour. [7] In August 2019, the Government of Karnataka announced it was no longer officially pursuing the proposal for an official state flag. [ 8 ]
Flag Date Use Description 2022–present: Indian Naval Ensign: The ensign consists of the Indian national flag on the upper canton, a blue octagon encasing the national emblem atop an anchor to depict steadfastness, superimposed on a shield with the Navy's motto “Sam No Varuna” (a Vedic mantra invoking the god of seas to be auspicious) in Devanagari.
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Map of Odisha. Odisha Day, also Utkala Dibasa, is celebrated on 1 April in the Indian state of Odisha in memory of the formation of the state as a separate state out of Bihar and Orissa Province with addition of undivided Koraput District and Ganjam District from the Madras Presidency on 1 April 1936.
Orissa Province was a province of British India created in April 1936 by the partitioning of the Bihar and Orissa Province and adding parts of Madras Presidency and Central Provinces. Its territory corresponds with the present-day state of Odisha .