{"id":36294,"date":"2024-07-22T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/odisha-govt-revokes-plan-to-rename-biju-patnaik-sports-award-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:47:13","slug":"odisha-govt-revokes-plan-to-rename-biju-patnaik-sports-award-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/odisha-govt-revokes-plan-to-rename-biju-patnaik-sports-award-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha Govt Revokes Plan to Rename \u2018Biju Patnaik Sports Award\u2019 &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bhubaneswar:<\/strong> In a recent turn of events, the Odisha government has decided to retain the original name of the \u2018Biju Patnaik Sports Award\u2019. The idea to change the award\u2019s name had faced criticism after the government initially issued guidelines to rename it as the \u2018Rajya Krida Samman\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Following widespread objections and concerns, Chief Minister Mohan Majhi clarified on Sunday that there were no plans to alter the award\u2019s title. He acknowledged Biju Patnaik\u2019s contributions to the state and the nation, stating that the name would remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the government issued a notification stating the cancellation of the previously published notice on 19th July concerning the name change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0No decision taken to drop Biju Babu\u2019s name from Sports Award, says Odisha CM Majhi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bhubaneswar: In a recent turn of events, the Odisha government has decided to retain the original name of the \u2018Biju Patnaik Sports Award\u2019. The idea to change the award\u2019s name had faced criticism after the government initially issued guidelines to rename it as the \u2018Rajya Krida Samman\u2019. Following widespread objections and concerns, Chief Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Biju-patnaik-award.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36295,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36294\/revisions\/36295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}