A district-level seminar on Saura tribal community organised by the Swami Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari on Saturday urged for restoration of the Saura culture.
The seminar presided over by Saura tribe president Jhampura Raita was graced by Mahant Maharaj Ramanand Das, All India Vivekananda Kendra pracharak Nivedita Dhire and Kendra’s Assam unit coordinator Jayant Barua among others.
Pracharak Dhire outlined his views on how the Saura culture can be restored and their various puja rituals, including of marriage, be linked with the Jagannath culture.
People belonging to the Saura tribal community from different blocks of Gajapati district participated in the programme. While Trinath Sabar coordinated the event, Kendra’s Bhubaneswar unit functionaries Rabi Naidu, Pranjali Devi and laxminarayan Panigrahi managed the programme.