The Bhasha Suraksha Sammilani on Sunday announced to hold a civil disobedience movement in the city on September 21 to press for establishment of an Odia language Commission and provision of punishment for proper implementation of the Odisha Official language Act 1954.
The Sammilani took the decision at a special meeting held here under chairmanship of its president Baishnab Charan Parida. A resolution passed on the occasion also slammed the State Government severely staging that use of Odia in Government offices, courts, business establishments has been discouraged during the last 18 years and a process has begun for lifting of Odia teaching altogether from the education sector.
Sammilani vice-presidents like Hrudaya Ballav Das, Prof Nityananda Satpahthy, Prof Ajit Mohanty and Dr Debi Prasanna Patnaik, CPM leader Shibaji Patnaik, former Minister Panchanan Kanungo, senior Congress leader and former Minister Ganeshwar Behera, BJP spokesperson Dr Purna Chandra Mallick, advocate Shibanand Ray and Prof Arabinda Patnaik were present. About 300 representatives from all districts attended the meeting.
Members have called upon all students, youths, litterateurs and leaders of political parties to be involved in the proposed demonstration.
It was also decided that Satyagrah would be staged at all district headquarters after the September 21 civil disobedience movement.