The Nehru Seva Sangh here observed the 84th birth anniversary of its founder Swami Harihar Ram as Bhakti Diwas on Tuesday. Swami Harihar Ram founded the Sangh in 1946 at the age of
13 only to achieve a goal in his life to eradicate poverty and ensure development of tribal people of Odisha, especially of the Banpur region.
Speakers at the function also recalled Ram too established child welfare centres for different groups of children for their rehabilitation in undivided Puri and Kalahandi districts,
The meeting was presided over by Sangh vice-president Prof RN Hota and addressed by writer Balamukunda Dash, teacher ladukeswar Sahoo.
Among others, Sarojini Dash, Birendra Kumar Tripathy and Om Prakash
Agrawal paid tribute to Swami Harihar.
The inmates of the ashram of the Sangh offered flowers and performed Arati before the portrait of Swami Harihar.