JSpur Students’ Cong decries JNU violence
Jagatsinghpur: The district Students’ Congress unit on Saturday held a demonstration here decrying the attack on students in JNU and Ahmedabad. The protestors blamed the RSS and the ABVP-backed students for the incidents and demanded strong action against them. Later, they burnt an effigy of Union Home Minister Amit Shah at College Chhak. The agitation was led by district Students’ Congress president Kumar Pritam Parija, Krishnananda Sahoo, Krushna Chandra Pradhan, Smruti Ranjan Jena and Soumyaranjan Mahali.
Road Safety Week begins in JSpur
Jagatsinghpur: Observation of the 31st Road Safety Week began here on Saturday in collaboration with district administration and Regional Transport Office., District Collector SK Mohapatra flagged off a road safety awareness rally at Gandhi Chhak. The weeklong programme is being observed in eight blocks and the Paradip municipal area in the district. The launching ceremony was attended by RTO Pratap Kishor Panda, MVI Sarmila Moharana, junior MVI Panchanana Behera, DIPRO Kaminiranjan Patnaik, members from truck and bus owners’ associations and school and college students.
College Clerk suspended for misappropriation
Jagatsinghpur: Junior Clerk Prasanta Kumar Sahoo working at the Narayan Birabar Samanta Mahavidyalaya in Jhimani under Kujang block was suspended by college management on Saturday. Basing on complaints against him, the management committee had instituted a probe a week ago. The investigation team found him guilty as he did not furnish details about Rs 8 lakh allotted to the college for several developmental works. A complaint was lodged at the Lockpada police station accusing him of misappropriating, informed college Principal Dr Banaprabha Parida.
Road safety awareness Rath launched
Paralakhemundi: An awareness rath was flagged off on the occasion of the 31st National Road Safety Week by the district Collector Anupam Saha here on Saturday. An awareness rally was taken out in which school students and members of the drivers’ association took part holding placards and made people aware of traffic rules for road safety. The Rath, taken out by the Transport Department, would go around different places in the district and make people aware on road safety till January 17. Among others, Sub-Collector and RTO in-charge Rajnikant Swain, MVI Basant Kumar Mahapatra and DIPRO Rabichandra Nayak were present.
Khordha Coop Bank annual general meet held
Khordha: The Khordha Central Cooperative Bank Ltd held its 103rd annual general meeting here on Friday. Bank President Prasant Kumar Dash presided over the meeting. Khordha MLA Jyotirindra Nath Mitra attended as chief guest. Presidents and Secretaries of 147 cooperative societies under the bank were present.
Khordha PN College athletic meet ends
Khordha: The two-day 57th annual athletic meet of the Prananath (Autonomous) College, Khordha concluded on Saturday under the guidance of college Principal Dr Soudamini Das. Water Resources Minister Raghunandan Das, Khordha MLA Jyotirindra Nath Mitra and Major Khirod Prasad Mohanty attended as guests. Biswaranjan Mahapatra and Bishnupriya Sahu of Plus Three were felicitated for being champions in boys and girls categories, respectively. Besides, winners of other different competition were also felicitated. Among others, Lecturers Subendu Kumar Mohanty and Dr Narayan Baliarsingh were present.
B’pur police holds 1st district athletic meet
Brahmapur: The first district athletic meet-2020 organised by the Brahmapur police concluded here on Sunday. The objective of the meet was to promote the culture of sports and games among the police personnel. Around 300 police personnel of different ranks participated in the meet. Selected candidates will participate in the State Athletic Meet to be held at Cuttack. In addition to it, the event helped in fostering camaraderie, team work and spirit of sportsmanship among the police personnel. DIG (SR) Satyabrata Bhoi had inaugurated the event in presence of Ganjam SP Brijesh Kumar Rai and Brahmapur SP Pinak Mishra.
TRL Krisaki holds inter-school Olympiad
Jharsuguda: The TRL Krisaki organised an inter-school Olympiad on Saturday as part of its Healthy Children Project. A total of 259 students from 21 schools of Belpahar participated in the event. The programme was inaugurated by Hirdesh Sehgal, Sr VP (Operations), TRL Krosaki. Giridhar Bhoi, Block Education Officer, Lakhanpur was chief guest. The programme was organised under the leadership of Niranjan Tripathy, Headmaster, BR High School, and Rama Kartik, Principal, BEM School. While the BEM School emerged as the group champion in the secondary level, Gandhinagar PUP School became the group champion in the primary level.