On this Day Odia Language became only 6th in India to Get Classical Status from Govt of India . Odia is now in the same league with Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam. Odia is billed as the first language from the Indo-Aryan linguistic group and the case for making it a classical language was also premised on the fact that it has no resemblance to Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali and Telugu. The proposal was moved by the Culture Ministry.