Proposed power workers’ stir postponed
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Bidyut Sharmika Karmachari Joint Coordination Committee has postponed its proposed mass agitation after getting assurance from Energy Minister Pranab Prakash Das, OPTCl CMD Hemant Sharma and Gridco (Commerce) Director PK Pradhan. The committee had threatened to launch an indefinite agitation from Monday demanding fulfilment of its various issues. “We deferred our proposed agitation after getting written assurance from the Minister and other concerned officials,” said committee general secretary Akshaya Kumar Tripathy.
New BPUT VC calls on Governor
Bhubaneswar: Newly-appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) Dr Shyam Sundar Pattnaik paid a courtesy visit to Governor and Chancellor of Universities Dr SC Jamir at the Raj Bhavan in Bhubaneswar on Friday.
Rt-Palli School bags national limelight
Bhubaneswar: The Rt-Palli School, a boarding school in the outskirts of the city for imparting courses from middle to secondary level free of cost, came to national limelight as a student, Satya Prakash Nayak, appears as the only Odia at the Indian National Mathematics Olympiad-2015. Established in 2001 in an area of ten acres at Bhingarpur, 10 km from the city, the school has been producing numbers of successful students since its inception. “The motto of our institution is to build up character of children from the beginning,” said school Principal Prashant Samal.