The Maa Ghara took out a peace rally from Baleswar to Bhubaneswar from September 26 to October 2 with a message of making Odisha liquor-free.
The rally started from the Fakir Mohan Shanti Kanan Park, Baleswar and culminated at Bhubaneswar on the Gandhi Jayanti. “Violence is rising in Odisha due to unemployment and liquor consumption.
Due to violence, women and children are being affected the most,” said Maa Ghara Foundation president Rutuparna Mohanty.
She said the peace rally in which more than 500 women activists belonging to various youth organisations, women organisations and district units of the Maa Ghara participated, was held to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Various awareness campaigns were also held to make people aware about the ill effects of liquor sale and consumption in destroying future of women and children.
A delegation of the foundation under leadership of Mohanty met Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal on Monday, held a discussion and later submitted a memorandum demanding to him to direct the State Government for implementation of the Orissa Prohibition Act, 1956 at the earliest.
Sujata Jena, Kanakalata Sahu, Sasmita Nayak, Pratisudha Mohanty, Amrit Mohanty and Sudir Tripathy were present in the delegation.