Published : Odisha Sun Times
/22-Dec-2016
A day after Union Health Ministry announced inclusion of eight languages for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – the qualifying exam for admission to medical courses – from next academic year, Odisha government sought Centre’s intervention to incorporate Odia as medium of examination “in the larger interest of the students.” Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik wrote a letter to Prime Minster Shri Narendra Modi seeking his personal intervention into the matter of Odia not figuring in the list of languages.