Turtle Day observed in Brahmapur
Brahmapur: The Anchalika Bikash Parishad and Boxing Odisha, Brahmapur observed the World Turtle Day here on Wednesday with an aim to make people aware on protection of turtles. The programme was organised under the chairmanship of Brahmapur Divisional Forest Officer Ashish Behera. Ghumsur South DFO Bijoya Ketan Acharya, Ghumsur West DFO P Rama Swami and former Forest Officer Pradeep Kumar Panda attended as guests and spoke on the importance of protecting turtles. ACFs Prabhakar Nayak, Bishnu Charan Behera, Ashok Kumar Behera, Biranchi Naryan Nath, Parishad member Sagar Kumar Patro, Kabiraj Gauda, Manorama Moharana and Eco Club district secretary Sankar Narayan Bej were present.
PPWO hold free health camp
Nimapara: A free health camp was held by IGNOU, Bhubaneswar in collaboration with the Apollo Hospitals and the Pingalakhi Public Welfare Organisation (PPWO) of Nimapara at the Noliasahi AG school premises of Konark. Health checkups, ECG, blood taste, etc., were held for 150 people. IGNOU Deputy Director Dr Santosh Kumar Panigrahi, Apollo Hospitals business official Sakti Mishra, PPWO head Raj Kishore Sabut, Soma Chakrabarty of Apollo, Dr Premananda Pattnaik, Dr Pradip Kumar Dey, Dr Nirmal Kumar Das, paramedical staffs, Padmalochan Mohanty, Gajendranath Pradhan and Pravat Behera of PPWO were present.
NTPC Kaniha holds cleanliness drive
Talcher: The NTPC Talcher Kaniha organised an awareness rally and cleanliness drive at the weekly market here under Swachhta Pakhwada which is being organised from May 16 to 31. NTPC Kaniha Executive Director Ram Kuber flagged of the rally, which started from the NTPC Township PTS Market and concluded at weekly market. After the rally, participants were involved in cleanliness drive of the weekly market. GM (Maintenance) N Acharya, GM (TS) NS Rao, GM (Fuel Management) Anil Jana, AGM (HR) KS Sarma, CISF DC Devinder Singh and Tanvi Sangam president Deepti Kuber were present