Preamble

The Odisha Gazette

EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. Date : 30th March 1954

Orissa Act No. 14 of 1954

*THE ORISSA OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ACT, 1954

[Received the assent of the President on the 24th March 1954, first published in an extraordinary issue of the Orissa Gazette, dated the 30 March 1954 ]

ANACT TO DECLARETHE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE STATE OF ORISSA

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the adoption of Oriya as the language to be used for all or any of the official purposes of the State of Orissa;

It is hereby enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the Filth year of the Republic of India as follows :