Sweety Housing Complex distributes foods
Bhubaneswar: The Ganganagar Sweety Housing Complex Welfare Society came forward to support the distressed people, including daily wage earners, by way of providing them dry and cooked foods for a week during the Covid-19 lockdown. Society secretary CMA Niranjan Mishra said the members mainly distributed the relief materials in the Master Canteen, private bus-stand, Rasulgarh over-bridge underpass and Nayapally Durga Mandap areas. Society president Somanath Rath, vice-president RK Panda and members Col SP Patnaik, AK Jena, Antaryami Patra and SK Parida coordinated the food distribution daily. About 500 needy persons were benefitted.
Covid warriors felicitated
Bhubaneswar: The Dinabandhu Villa Welfare Association on Monday felicitated doctors, police personnel and bank and BMC employees for their uninterrupted involvement in Covid-19 battle in the city. ACP Bishnu Charan Patra, ACP Traffic Shashwat Panda, IIC Sharat Chandra Patra, Dr Prajna Mohanty, Dr Radha Dalei, Dr Ranjita Mohanty, Dr S Panda, bank employees Sangram Sahoo, Mihir Tripathy, Sushant Nayak, Hulas Samantray and other police and BMC employees were felicitated with flowers. Prasanna Kumar Choudhury, Gadadhar Das, Durga Prasad Sahoo, Shashi Bhushan Das, Raj Mishra, Dhiraj Mohapatr and Manoranjan Mohapatra coordinated the programme.
Bt cotton seeds worth Rs 36L seized
Balangir: Acting on a tipoff, a team of agriculture officials led by Balangir in-charge DDA Balkrishna Gouda seized 5,000 sacks of Bt cotton seeds at the Titilagarh railway station on Sunday. The consignment of Sukun Seeds Pvt Limited Ahmedabad had come in the name of one Ramesh Jain of Dhumabhata of Belpada block in the district. The consignment was seized as the dealer, in whose name the consignment came, could not produce authenticated papers. The value of the seized Bt cotton seeds was estimated to be Rs 36 lakh.