Three employment projects cleared
Bhubaneswar: The State Government on Monday cleared three project proposals of the State Employment Mission (SEM). The projects are the capacity building training for 280 physically challenged youths, training for 500 youths at the Balangir Hospitality Institute and the light motor vehicle training for 10,000 youths.
State Tourism road show held in Chennai Bhubaneswar: The State Tourism department organised the 5th road show on February 21 at Chennai, which was attended by tour operators, travel agents, journalists, travel writers and airlines of Chennai. Tourism director MR Patnaik and deputy director UK Pati were present. Sand & Pebbels, Swosti Travels, Om leisure, Toshali Group and Crown from Odisha participated for B2B session. Earlier, the department had organised similar road shows at Varanasi, Hyderabad, Goa and Raipur. Two more road shows will be organised at Guwahati and Chandigarh.
Allahabad Bank holds Family Day
Bhubaneswar: The Allahabad Bank Bhubaneswar Zone observed its Family Day function at the KIIT Campus-II here on Sunday with the bank’s zonal head Dinesh Kumar inaugurating the event. Various sports and cultural activities were held on the occasion. The event was attended by over 200 bank employees’ families. Kumar said the bank is going to celebrate its 150th year of foundation and everyone should endeavour to see the bank on the top position in banking industry.
Kantakabi remembered in city
Bhubaneswar: The Utkal Sammilani observed the death anniversary of Kantakabi laxmikant Mohapatra, the writer of the song Bande Utkal Janani, here on Monday. Sammilani members including its Mancheswar branch head Dillip Dassharma, treasurer Ussarani Mohanty, executive member Bibhuti Bhusan Swain, Odisha Sahiyta Academy secretary Bijay Nayak and Odisha Kaju Nigam chairman Bikram Kesari Berma garlanded the statue of Mohapatra at the PMG Square here. The function ended up with several slogans.
New Bhadrak SP felicitated in city
Bhubaneswar: City-based Nagarika Parishad on Monday felicitated Nihar Ranjan Das, who was recently transferred from Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate Police and appointed as Bhadrak SP. Among others, ward (40) corporator Ram Chandra Pradhan, engineer Sarada Prasad Mohanty, senior lawyer Banbihari Mohanty, journalist Pradyumna Kumar Mohanty, lingaraj Das, Artaballav Ray, Bijay Kumar Mohanty, Bibekananda Biswal, Adeita Charan Hota, Banamali Behera, Brajkishore Mohanty, Chitaranjan Praharaj and Debakanta lenka were present.