Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched ‘Odisha-Mo Parivar’, a social welfare programme of the party, to strengthen the organiaation at the grassroots level.
While the Patnaik-led BJD Government is focusing on good governance with implementation of 5T initiatives, the party initiated the new programme to make its presence in three major fields.
Patnaik said the Odisha Mo-Parivar programme is a tribute to late Biju Patnaik, who had always been working for the welfare of people of the State and lending support to poor and needy people. The BJD is committed to serving the State, he said.
He described the State’s entire 4.5 crore people as his own family and said, “I have always been working for their welfare. I have flagged off Mo-Parivar programme to take social welfare projects forward.”
The programme will focus on three major areas -- environment, healthcare services and assistance to poor and deprived people.
Under the programme, the BJD will undertake a massive plantation drive by creating awareness among people about environment protection.
Patnaik urged everyone to join hands together for the BJD’s social programmes like blood donation. “Since the BJD has achieved success in its blood donation programme ‘Jeevan Bindu’, now I want to transform it into a social movement,” he said.
Besides, the party would help the people who are working in various sectors in other State and overseas under extreme conditions. Under the programme, BJD workers would stand as the support for victims and provide aid to their families.
For proper execution of the Odisha-Mo Parivar, the party president appointed Rajya Sabha BJD member Arup Patnaik as its convener and five other party leaders, Pinaki Misra, Achyuta Samanta, Chandra Sekhar Sahu, Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak and Nalini Kanta Pradhan, as co-conveners.
Party leaders Manohar Randhari, Ananta Narayan Jena, Sudhir Samal, Sushant Rout, Sanjeev Mallick, Latika Pradhan, Rita Tarai, Bharati Singh, Sunita Biswal, Sandhyakumari Nayak, Dejalin Mohapatra and Gourahari Mishra were appointed as the members of the programme.