Sarala Puraskar for Pravakar Swain
Rourkela: Eminent litterateur Prof Pravakar Swain was conferred with the Adikabi Sarala Puraskar on Saturday for his profound contributions to the Salara literature and its wide publicity. The award was conferred at the 44th annual day of the Sarala Sanskrutika Parishad at Rourkela. Swain, while studying at the Regional Engineering College, now National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela had started his literary pursuit by setting up the Parishad. En engineer by profession, he made remarkable contributions in the field of literature and culture. He was the founder of Sarala Samman, a literary award and Kalinga Ratna Award, a citizen award.
C’pur DAV holds service camps in B’swar
Bhubaneswar: A three-day community service camp was organised by the students of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur at different places in Baleswar district in a bid to make people aware about the importance of health and hygiene recently. Around 150 students took part in the programme. The participants visited DRDO at Chandipur-on-sea, Panchalingeswar, Khirachora Gopinath temple, Vyasakabi memorial and undertook cleanliness drive and organsied street plays at these places. Baleswar Collector Sanatan Mallick, school Principal Dr KC Satapathy, chairman MM Panda among many others attended the event.
Road safety drive held at PPl
Paradip: In a bid to make the drivers aware about various traffic rules for safe driving, the Paradeep Phosphates ltd initiated an annual road safety programme in association Sankha Dhwani Rasta Surakhya Samiti here in the plant premises recently. Project vice president Kiran Joshi said, “Plant safety has been under control, but road safety at present seems to be beyond control.” The programme started with launching of road safety sticker for the plant. Samiti secretary Prakash Kumar Mohapatra highlighted various aspects of road disaster and area of concern for the drivers. Among others, PPl General Manager (Commerce) Millind Akerkar, AN Rao, Sridhar Ayar and Suryans Bhargav were present.
Martyr laxman Nayak remembered
Brahmapur: The Manav Adhikar Manch, a city-based human rights forum, observed the 73rd martyrdom day of freedom fighter laxman Nayak at the Saheed laxman Nayak Memorial (Government) High School, Courtpeta here on Sunday. Intellectuals like AR Verma, Maguni Nahak, Malikarjun Bebarta and Pramod Kumar Panda paid rich tributes to the freedom fighter. Manch coordinator Abani Kumar Gaya said the youth should follow the patriotic deeds of Nayak. “We need another freedom struggle against the capitalists,” he added.
Ram Navami celebrated by Nehru Seva Sangha
Banpur: The Nehru Seva Sangha here on Saturday celebrated Ram Navami with prayer and conducting special rituals. The Sangha members also observed the concluding day of nine day long Basantika Navaratra Puja. Sangha vice-president Rankanath Hota, Sarojini Dash, Omprakash Agrawal, Birendra Kumar Tripathy and Pradeep Kumar Das also participated in the puja.