The Utkal Chamber of Commerce and Industry Limited (UCCIL) celebrated the Vijay Diwas on December 16, the victory day celebrated in India for its victory over Pakistan in the Bangladesh Liberation War and in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Governor Raghubar Das graced the event as chief guest.
The Board of Directors of UCCIL felicitated Governor Das who remembered and mentioned the glory that Odisha has brought to the country throughout its long history of war and peace. He said that Odisha has forever been giving birth to valorous and indomitable heroes.
President UCCIL Dr Brahma Mishra welcomed the guests and the audience among whom there were many veterans of war and kith and kin of martyrs who have laid down their lives in the service of the nation, besides many retired senior administrative and police officers of the top brass. Retired Brigadier Laxmi Charan Pattanayak who was formerly also the Chairman of OPSC spoke who about the 1971 War and the war heroes. Among others, former Air Marshal J N Burma, PVSM, AVSM, VSM and Dhaneswar Kumar Sharma, IG, BSF spoke.
