In an aim to beautify the Gopalpur sea beach, the Ganjam district administration and the Gopalpur NAC jointly launched a special programme called ‘Mo Gopalpur’ on Friday.
A meeting held on the occasion at Gopalpur was presided by district Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange and graced by MP Chandrasekhar Sahu and MLAs Bikram Kumar Panda, Dr Pradeep Panigrahi and Subash Behera.
The guests stressed that cleanliness be maintained in the sea beach as large numbers of tourists come to visit it every day. They also called upon all to provide support to make the beach a ‘Swacch Belabhumi’.
Among others, Chhatrapur Sub-Collector Sambit Kumar Rout, DRDA APD Sudam Mandal, Konishi Tehsildar Anita Sahu, IMD local officer Er Umashankar Das, Light House chief Ashish Kumar Das, ADMs Rabindra Chandra Das and Laxmikant Sethi and NAC EO Umashankar Sethi were present.
After the meeting, a cleanliness drive was undertaken from the Hotel Sea Side to the Swargadwar. Volunteers of various organisations and members of the Team Clean City participated in the drive.