Bhubaneswar, 23/12 (AO Bureau): Naveen Patnaik led Odisha Government has renamed North Orissa University after Mayurbhanj King Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo.
According to the notification released by the Higher Education Department which read ” In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (c) of sub-section (I) of section-32 of the Odisha Universities Act, 1989, the State Government do hereby change the name of North Orissa University established in the notification of the Government of Odisha in the Higher Education Department dated July 13, 1998, and published in the extraordinary issue of the Odisha Gazette on the same date as “Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo”,