The sole purpose of the Oriya race to create a separate State of it’s own was to ensure that its official affairs would be managed in its mother tongue Oriya. Orissa official Language Act, 1954 had to declare that for all and any official purpose Oriya shall be the Language of the State of Orissa. The Act is not being honored. Bhasha Andolan, Orissa completed on April 12, 2017 one year of its unique, entirely non-violent, silent yet most speaking ‘BLACK FLAG MOVEMENT’ calling for codification of punishment to whosoever sabotages official use of Oriya. This special story is published in Orissa’s largest circulated newspaper ‘SAMBAD’.
Tag: Oriya Language
WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR OFFICIAL LANGUAGE SINCE 1948
Language Oriya and Creation of Orissa
This article shows how the people’s mother tongue Oriya was the cause behind creation of Orissa, India’s first linguistic State. This is carried by many newspapers of Orissa on the occasion of Utkal Divas, 2017.
A Story that tell the truth
It looks like a story, but is an eye-witnessed account. I have posted it in scribd.com for the Oriyas of the world to read with the aim that from this eye-witnessed account they may introspect their position in relation to their motherland, mother tongue and heritage, when Bhasha Andolan, Orissa, the world’s only movement of its kind has been fighting for governance of Orissa in Oriya.
THIS IS THE STORY THAT TELLS THE TRUTH FOR EVERY ORIYA TO PERUSE:
Tathapi Santana
Orissa Govt. Neatly Sabotages NEET Prospects of Oriya Students
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Originally written for the Oriya daily Suryaprava, this write-up exposes how the anti-Oriya Government of Orissa has sabotaged the NEET prospects of Oriya students. The State action would help only the children of the elite class of Orissa have medical education while denying the facility to the children of poor families that have no education in English medium. These families constitute 85% of Oriya population, who survive slow-starvation because of the heavily subsidized rice supplied to them at the rate of ₹1/- per Kg.
Here is the article:
NEET PROSPECTS BLURRED FOR ORIYA STUDENTS