The Utkal Sammilani, Mancheswar Industrial Estate Branch on Fridaysubmitted a memorandum to the District labour Officer, Khordha urging him to direct shops and other business units to write their nameplates in Odia.
A team of Sammilani members led by Dillip Dashsharma submitted the memorandum on the occasion of death anniversary of former Chief Minister Nabakrushna Choudhury, who had first taken initiatives for use of Odia as official language of Odisha.
“The State labour and Employment Department has issued a direction to business establishment to write their nameplates in Odia years ago. But it is marked that many shops and business units have not executed the direction in Khordha district, including the capital city. The State Bank of India has not written its nameplate in Odia at all,” rued the memorandum submitted to Khordha Division Deputy labour Commissioner Pradip Kumar Mohapara and DlO Ambika Prasad Mishra.
Among others, Utkal Sammilani, Mancheswar Industrial Estate Branch vice president Sheetal Chandra Mohanty, secretary Gobinda Chandra Subuddhi, joint secretary Bibhuti Bhushan Swain, ‘The Samachar’ editor Er Shiba Prasad Mishra and Ashok Kumar Palatasingh accompanied Dashsharma to the DlO office. The Deputy labour Commissioner and the DlO assured that they would take steps soon on the demand.