Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik would inaugurate naming of the flyover road from Satyanagar to Cuttck-Puri Road after Saint Mother Teresa on September 4 at 9.30 am.
Housing and Urban Development Minister Pushpendra Singh Deo, Tourism and Culture Minister Ashok Panda and Archbishop John Barwa SVD of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar are likely to grace the occasion as guests.
Pope Francis will officially declare Mother Teresa as saint on September 4 in Vatican, Rome.
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has taken to name the road as Saint Mother Teresa Road on the request of Odisha Catholic Bishops’ Council (OCBC) chairman Archbishop John Barwa SVD. “We are grateful to Odisha government for naming the road after Mother Teresa. It is our tribute to Mother Teresa for her invaluable contribution to humanity through her service and charity,” said Archbishop Barwa, head of Odisha Catholic Church.
In Odisha Missionaries of Charity has nine homes for the sick, abandoned and elders; six homes for children and three centers for leprocy patients and four for mentally sick.