President Murmu attends Ol Chiki centenary and 22nd Parsi Maha at Jamshedpur
President Droupadi Murmu addressed the closing of the 22nd Parsi Maha and the centenary celebrations of the Ol Chiki script at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on 29 December 2025.
Summary
President Droupadi Murmu addressed the closing ceremony of the 22nd Parsi Maha and the centenary celebrations of the Ol Chiki script at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on 29 December 2025. Murmu said that before Ol Chiki, Santhali was written in Roman, Devanagari, Odia and Bengali scripts that could not render many Santhali words correctly, until Pandit Raghunath Murmu created the Ol Chiki script in 1925. The President recalled releasing the Constitution of India in Santhali in the Ol Chiki script on 25 December 2025 and urged the community to learn their mother tongue in Ol Chiki.
Key facts
- Event
- 22nd Parsi Maha closing and Ol Chiki centenary
- Place / date
- Jamshedpur, Jharkhand; 29 December 2025
- Script creator
- Pandit Raghunath Murmu, 1925
- Earlier scripts
- Roman, Devanagari, Odia, Bengali
- Constitution
- Released in Santhali (Ol Chiki) on 25 December 2025
Practice MCQs 2 questions
The Ol Chiki script, whose centenary President Murmu celebrated at Jamshedpur on 29 December 2025, was created by:
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Correct answer: B — Pandit Raghunath Murmu
PIB (President's Secretariat): Pandit Raghunath Murmu created the Ol Chiki script in 1925.
Consider the following statements about the Ol Chiki script: 1. It was created in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu for the Santhali language. 2. The Constitution of India in Santhali, written in Ol Chiki, was released on 25 December 2025. 3. Before Ol Chiki, Santhali was written only in the Devanagari script. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Correct answer: A — 1 and 2 only
PIB (President's Secretariat): Ol Chiki was created in 1925 by Pandit Raghunath Murmu, and the Santhali Constitution in Ol Chiki was released on 25 December 2025. Earlier, Roman, Devanagari, Odia and Bengali scripts were all used, so statement 3 is wrong.