Nominations for Ekalabya Award sought
Bhubaneswar: The Indian Metals Public Charitable Trust (IMPaCT) has invited nominations for the prestigious Ekalabya Puraskar-2013. It is the annual sports award for outstanding young sportspersons of Odisha carrying a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh. Interested candidates are to send their nominations through sports organisations, associations, universities, colleges and schools within Odisha. Candidates must not exceed 25 years of age as on March 31, 2013. The nominations must reach Ekalabya Puraskar, IMFA Trust, Bomikhal, Bhubaneswar-751010 latest by May 31, 2013. Alternatively, nominations can be e-mailed to ekalabya@imfa.in in which case the supporting documents must be sent separately to the postal address mentioned above.
Training programme on child rights held
Bhubaneswar: A training proramme on child rights focusing on exclusion for grassroots-level duty bearers like PRI members, Child Protection Committees, Anganwadi Workers, ASHA Workers, Youth Facilitation Centres, SHGs, Village Development Committees, Slum Development Committees was organised here by city-based Centre for Child and Women Development (CCWD) and Rural Academic for Research Enrichment (RARE) in collaboration with the Save the Children for promotion of children's development. Focusing on the exclusion part of children, Dr Pattayat spoke on child-friendly Panchayats to strengthen the whole system of Government mechanism for future buds.
Khurda Book Fair inaugurated
Khurda: The Khurda Book Fair was inaugurated by eminent writer Santanu Kumar Acharya at the Gita Bhavan field here. local MlA Rajendra Sahoo and writers Dr Mihir Sahoo, Prakash Mohapatra, Banoj Tripathy and Pramod Sahoo, Book Fair Committee president and former MlA Dr Dillip Srichandan were present. Committee chief coordinator Dr Dhirendra Nanda read out the annual report and said debate, drawing, story writing, and poem reciting competitions and cultural programmes would be during the fair, which will continue till April 8.
PRATIDIN GETS MODERN PRESS
Bhubaneswar: A new latest web offset printing machine of Odia daily Pratidin was inaugurated by Information and Public Relations Minister Arun Kumar Sahoo and Commerce and Transport Minister Subrat Tarai here on Wednesday. Pratidin editor Sudhir Kumar Panda informed about the high quality printing process through the machine in a time-bound manner.