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Patnaik expresses 'serious concern' over absence of Odia inscription on kilometre stones, information boards on National Highways in Odisha

| | May 05, 2017, at 10:47 pm
Bhubaneswar, May 5 (IBNS): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has expressed 'serious concern' over absence of Odia inscription on kilometre stones and information boards on National Highways in the state, officials said.

"Citing Ministry of Road Transport and Highways circular dated 24th December, 2004 for inscription of all information boards to be in in local, Devanagri and Roman scripts, he sought Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari's directions to authorities to strictly follow guidelines on local language," read a post on the CMO Odisha Facebook page.

Patnaik raised the issues of public inconvenience being caused due to perceptible lack of destination and place identification boards inscribed in Odia script on NHs, read the post.

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