Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday wrote a letter to the Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways demanding inscription of Odia script on the kilometre stones and information boards on the National Highways throughout the State.
Patnaik stated according to the Union Ministry’s circular on December 24, 2004 , all information bards should invariably be inscribed in three scripts, namely, Devangiri, Roman scripts and local language should be used in every 2nd and 4thkm stones and in combination with Hindi on 1st, 3rd and 6th km stones and in combination with Roman on 0th and 5th km stones.
“But I am deeply anguished the aforesaid instructions are not being followed in our State. Besides, there is perceptible lack of destination and place identification boards inscribed in Odia script on the NHs causing much inconvenience to the public,” the Chief Minister stated.