Institute of Odia Studies and Research (IOSR), Odisha

The Institute of Odia Studies and Research (IOSR), Odisha is a non-profit voluntary organization that devoted to the cause of Odia language, literature and culture as well as training and research in Odia in order to develop it into a language of knowledge and development. It played a key role in getting the Odia Language recognized by the Central Government in 2014 as a Classical Language. It has entered into a MoU with the Govt. of Odisha for ensuring extensive usage of Odia language in Government and with Utkal University for Computational Linguistics. IOSR prepared a handbook titled, “Odiā Bhāshā Sahachara” with CMGI for Governance in Odia language.It has been imparting regular training through Odia medium to candidates aspiring for getting into various All-India and State administrative positions.It has organized four National Language Conferences, during 2014–17.

Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha

The Ravenshaw University came into existence on the 15th day of November, 2006. It was an up-gradation of Ravenshaw College established in 1868, one of the oldest and largest colleges in India which subsequently became an autonomous college with CPE status by UGC and 'A' grade by NAAC. The history of this great institution is, in a manner of speaking, the history of modern Orissa. It was the cradle of ideas fostering national unity and nationalism, promoting social mobilization and gearing up the freedom struggle. The grand hall of this institution was a theater of history: on the 1st of April'1936 it was the venue for the declaration of Orissa as a separate province; thereafter it housed the state's first legislative assembly up to and even after Independence till it was shifted to Bhubaneswar, the new capital of the state.