Although The Progress Language
Although The Progress Language
Oriya, one of the during the last decade seems to be oldest languages in the country is consistent, the state is not yet able the predominant language spoken in to catch up with the all-India level of the state and its outlying tracts. literacy, which is 65.38 per cent. Oriya is the official language of the About 87 per cent of Orissa’s state and 84 per cent of the people population live in villages. The speak in Oriya. Besides Hindi, Urdu, districts of Kondhamal, Mayurbhanj Bengali and Telugu are widely and Kalahandi are mostly rural having understood and sometimes spoken. a rural population of about 94 per English is spoken by the educated cent in average. Only about 13 per few. cent of the people live in towns and cities.
The state enlists 124 urban units including 102 statutory census towns, i.e. they have either a municipality or an NAC each. Of these there are only seven cities with a population of one lakh and above. Two of these cities, Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, are of the modern type, the rest have the traditional urban structure of agglomeration of houses.
