To mark the 200th year of the Paika Revolution, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) organised a State-level ‘Paika Swabhiman Yatra’ at the Saraswati Sishu Mandir at Khordha on Sunday.
Prof Narayan Rao inaugurated the programme in presence of school teacher Prasant Kumar Rout, ABVP State president Dillip Kumar Das, secretary Tanmay Das and Dr Dhirendra Nanda. Rout urged the youths to lead life with education, tradition and dignity.
Six Paika gurus were felicitated with the Paika Gourav Samman. Students who won different competitions of different colleges of Khordha area were also felicitated.
Gopabandu Jena, Rakesh Barik, Pradeep Swain, Rozy Sethi, laxmipriya Khatei, Saswati Tripathy, Pabitra Behera, Subham Mohanty and Manas Swain coordinated the programme.