ECoR holds diabetes awareness camp
Bhubaneswar: To spread awareness among the general public as a whole and railway employees in particular, a health awareness programme on diabetes and healthy diet exhibition was organised by the Central Hospital of East Coast Railway on Friday. ECoR General Manager Umesh Singh inaugurated the event. Doctors and paramedical staffs of the Central Hospital headed by Chief Medical Director Dr SK Mohanty and experts from the Apollo Hospitals were available for consultation. A large number of railway employees and their family members, including general public learnt about the diet system for the patients.
Baleswar Bar Assn gets new functionaries
Baleswar: Niranjan Panda and Sambit Nandi were elected as Balewar Bar Association president and secretary, respectively, on Saturday. Several other functionaries like vice president, assistant secretaries, treasurer and executive committee members were also elected through secret ballot.
Baripada-Puri spl train to run till Sept-end
Baripada: The Baripada-Puri special weekly train which had begun plying between Puri and Baripada only for Rath Yatra will now continue to run till the end of September. The train, as before, will start its onward journey from Bhanjpur, Baripada at midnight every Friday and reach Puri early in the morning on Saturday.
AK singh new M’bhanj SP
Baripada: Aniruddh Kumar Singh has assumed charge as the new Superintendant of Police of Mayurbhanj district. He took charge from Additional SP Dinajana Nayak. Outgoing SP R Prakash has left for Jharsuguda as SP there.
IFFCO celebrates Van Mahotsav
Paradip: The Indian Farmers Fertilizer Corporation ltd (IFFCO) Paradeep Unit celebrated Van Mahostav Week in its premises on Friday. IFFCO employees and DAV students planted saplings near Choupal to develop an eco-friendly green belt. Senior General Manager-cum-Unit Head AK Panda spoke on the importance of plantation and its impact on environment. He also said IFFCO has targeted to plant 50,000 saplings during this financial year. Among others, DGM (P and A) SR Maurya, IFFCO DAV Principal Balaram Mohapatra, Anil Kumar Singh, Chinmoy Roy, D Pattnaik , PK Beura and Dillip Dora were present.
Students hold Van Mahotsav at Tarbha
Tarbha: Students of both the Government Boys’ High School and Government Girls’ HS with help of the ECO Club observed the Van Mahotsav here on Friday. Hundreds of boys and girl students joined the programme under guidance of their respective headmasters, Pravir Kumar Panda and Jay Prakash Narayan Sahu. They observed the Mahotsav at the Boys’ HS playground with the slogan “Trees are life”. Subarnapur DRDA PD Bishwanath Sahu and Prassana Kumar Panda inaugurated the festival by planting trees.
VSoft launches software for KCC
Bhubaneswar: The VSoft Technologies announced the ‘ROOTS’ software here on Wednesday which runs rupay enabled Kisan Credit Card (KCC). It addresses by storing all their information online (even linking to their Aadhaar-seeded account), ensuring faster processing of agricultural loans as eligibility checks are done in real-time. Odisha is the first State that the software is implemented through Odisha State co-operative Bank that deals with 17 DCCBs, 360 branches, 2500 PACS and caters to over 53 lakh agriculture families. VSoft Technologies chairman and CEO Murthy Veeraghanta said, “VSoft’s domain experts have achieved breakthrough innovation in building unique software.”