About 325 volunteers from seven colleges, Maniabandha College, HNS Mahavidyalaya, Chandol, Banki Autonomous College, KEN College, Kanpur, Mohan Subudhi College, Baramba, Bali College and Khuntuni College, participated in the 6-day NSS special camp conducted at the Dhabaleswar Temple on the occasion of Panchaka, Bada Osha and Rasapurnima.
The volunteers were engaged in a host of discipline activities like crowd management, helping physically-challeged persons to visit the shrine, distribution of water pouches, cleaning of earthen lamps and coconut coir and convincing devotees to wear safety jackets at the ferry ghat.
Utkal University NSS Programme Coordinator Dr Manoranjan Mohanty led the team. Among others, Programme Officers Pravakar Das, Pradipta Pradhan, Kuntala Beura, Surendra Kumar Das, laxmidhar Panda, laxman Kumar Pati, Suresh Kumar Routray, Sumadhur Bhasini Patra and Priyambada Dash participated.
Cuttack DRDA PD Trilochan Pradhan, Athagarh Sub-Collector Harish Chandra Nayak, Tigiria BDO Binod Jena and NSS Regional Director Pratap Patnaik graced the inaugural programme.