The Utkala Deepika was the first Odia printed newspaper. The weekly paper was started on by Gourishankar Ray and Babu Bichitrananda Das. Therefore, 4 August is celebrated as Odia Journalism Day. This weekly was instrumental in campaigning of bringing all Odia speaking tracts under a single province in India to develop the Odia language.

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