Senior journalist and founder of Vande Utkal Foundation Kishore Dwibedi has been elected as chairman of the newly-formed World Odisha Society (WOS) for a two-year term.
He garnered an overwhelming majority of votes in an election conducted online.
A five-time member of the Press Advisory Committee of Lok Sabha, Dwibedi is now CMD of the OMM Media Network.A 20-member working committee of the WOS has also been elected.
WOS founder-member president of Odia Socio Cultural Association of Netherlands Saswat Padhi presented the mission, vision and future roadmap of the WOS through a power-point event.
President of All Russia Odia Samaj Santosh Mishra extended all-out support and cooperation to the new world forum of Odias.