No more English signboards in the City Buses plying in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Puri. The running digital boards in the City Buses showing the routes in which they are plying would now be written in Odia only.
Central Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Arabinda Padhee on Friday requested the Transport Department to ensure that the company, which runs the bus services in the three cities, changes the language of the digital signboards and all other information of public importance in the buses into Odia immediately for the benefit of the common people.
The RDC also made a similar request to the Cuttack city DCP to ensure that the digital signboard at the traffic tower at the Madhupatna Square is also written in Odia.
Observing that many police stations in the city have their signboards written in only English, the RDC asked the DCP to look into it, saying many people coming from rural areas are not able to locate the police stations.
It may be noted that the famous cultural organisation Utkal Sammilani had made similar observations earlier and had requested the RDC to act upon it as soon as possible. Expressing deep concern over the rampant use of a foreign language in signboards and billboards disseminating vital information of public interest, the Sammilani had approached the authorities several times to amend it.