Skill Development and Technical Education Minister Sanjay Dasburma on Saturday inaugurated the new building of the Biju Patnaik Institute of Technical Education and a Biju statue here on the occasion of the legendary’s birthday on Saturday.
local MP Pinaki Mishra, department Principal Secretary lN Gupta and Technical Education Director Bishnu Prasad Sahu were present.
In another event at Siruli Mahavir, another Biju statue was unveiled and foundation stone was laid for a Government ITI.
BJD activists and some NGOs celebrated the birthday by holding meetings and distributing sweets among the patients at the District Headquarters Hospital.
BJD leaders, including MlA Maheswar Mohanty and the Puri Municipality Chairman, participated in the celebration.