The Odisha BPUT Students’ Association celebrated the Engineers’ Day here on Thursday.
The engineers are the Biswakarmas of the State and the country, said the speakers. They should be given proper respect and justice, they added.
A seminar on ‘Imagination of constructing a developed universe by the Engineers’ was also held.
The birthday of the founder of modern India Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya is celebrated as the Engineers’ Day. The BPUT and diploma students remembered him on the occasion.
Former Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadai was present as chief guest and said engineers’ role is incomparable in developing the State. The Odia engineering students should be given priority at the time of recruitment in all the industries of the State, he said.
MlAs Prafulla Samal, Bijay Kumar Mohanty and Priyadarshi Mishra, Mayor Anant Narayan Jena and Oxford Engineering College’s Nilamadhab Panda were present as guests.