But I strongly believe governments should put this energy towards doing something more productive for the states and towards the states economical progress. I am from Orissa and have lived for more than 20 years in Bhubaneswar which is my place of birth. I have also lived a substantial time in Bangalore. The changing of names should also take into consideration the other changes it would have to bring along like the changing of names in legal documents, hoarding boards, websites etc.
I still refer to the city name as Madras but many people confuse me with the new name. Bharat India eternally embraced many races, religions, faiths and believes and assimilated it into its main stream without losing its own uniqueness. However we like the world to know what we are and how exactly we name ourselves and pronounce it.
Actually we should have switched back to our local names all over our country immediately after Independence. The renaming should have happened much earlier. Better late than never. Ya I am happy to now write my state how i pronounce rather the British did it.
But sorry to say that it has not been knowned to all even some odiya people also. But you would not try to pull of that stunt out there. As its a insult of highest order out there if you mispronounce their language. Its more of a correction than a change. If I were you, I would probably tried to find the answers to why this change is being done. Probably a next article from you could conclude your open discussion. But I would definitely not say it as unnecessary and its just an effort to make the pronunciation in English and Odia more close I would say….
I bet if you find a single Odia people who spells like this. Every Odia spell it Odisha, though the previous official name was Orissa. Your neighbour spells your name as Mr. I appreciate the what happened.
It could just be another political drama in India. With growth and development of India overall , I feel it is time to recognise the way we are not by a name or mispronounciation given by somebody else. After independent of India whatever Britishers had set the names of different states, we all Indian pronouns them in the same way. Moreover , Orissa ,it is the pronunciation made by English people. I thank the author for this well crafted article. It cites the irregularities in the new naming with respect to the history.
It also underlines the political agenda behind it. As for me I myself am not a supporter of renaming well known places. It always adds to the confusion.
It is just common sense to understand that. I do respect the sentiment of the locals. If they prefer it so, they should have it. This is pointless. The effort the nation of India puts to rename a state could be put to something which is much more useful. Clothes , the education system, the judiciary which i might add has not changed to the modern age?. So all in all this is just false patriotism. Hello, I think no matter what the name of the state is but the thing is who will or which government will give the guarantee that the name changing procedure will forge unity among the people or among the classes.
This is the main challenge that the government have to face. Thanks Guys for your valuable comments. My views are well known, and think of the cost involved in changing the name? Everything has to be changed from stationary and maps to road signs and seals…its such a waste of money.
Far better to divert time and energy into solving the real problems than this expensive, unnecessary, PC nonsense. And Mr. Reporter let me tell u , since I was born Odisha is called Odisha… I dont know if you have gathered the Data before …… Also let me suggest you something…..
People want news and the history behind the same and not opinion. Defence National International Industry. International UAE. Saudi Arabia. US Elections World News. Nageshwar Patnaik. Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. Abc Large. But this requires an amendment to the Constitution in order to take effect.
Te proposed amendment is likely to be introduced in the next session of Parliament. Subscribe to ETPrime. The BJD government, taking exception to the manner in which state's name is spelled in Schedule I of the Constitution, advised the Centre to make the correction and the Union government has in principle agreed to do so, officials said. The name of the state and its language are mentioned in Schedule I in Devanagari as Udisa and Udia respectively, and 'Orissa' in English.
The Centre has agreed and asked us to get the formal approval of the state cabinet. It also wants the state assembly to adopt a resolution to this effect. Thereafter, the Centre would carry out the amendment in the Constitution," Mishra added. The state government, officials said, noticed the mistake when the department of official languages had in sought its views on changes, if any, required in the name of the state and language.
No wonder Hindi-speaking people have been wrongly pronouncing Odisha as Udisa. The Orissa government has decided to move the Centre to change the state's name to Odisha and its language from Oriya to Odia. A state cabinet meeting on Monday passed a proposal to introduce a bill in the coming monsoon session of the assembly for making an amendment in the Constitution in this regard, Chief Secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathy said. A bill in this regard will be placed in the monsoon session, Home Secretary T K Mishra said observing the state's name had been wrongly spelt in the Constitution, and no such move had been taken till now.
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