Town-based Rotary Club in a Press meet here has expressed its gratitude to all mediapersons, participants, organisations and residents of the town in particular who made the 2016 Raahgiri Diwas held jointly by the district administration and the club highly successful.
In 2017, the club is going to hold eight Raahgiri Diwas with the support of the district administration from February 5 (Sunday). The event would be held in the stretch between the PKDA office on VIP Road to Subhas Bose Chowk from 5 am to 8 am. Stress would be laid on cultural, awareness and entertainment programmes, said the club functionaries.
This year, the event would be held on different themes. The theme for the first Rahagiri is on afforestation. Besides, yoga, pranayam , boxing, skating, painting, handicrafts would be showcased in the event. Odia movie actors Jyoti and Pinki Priyadarshni will attend the event. Rotary Club president Bibhuprasad Tripathy , secretary Pramod Kumar Behera, former presidents Debi Prasanna Nanda and Tapan Kumar Das and coordinator Rabi Narayan Mishra were present.