A joint programme of Nirmala Kruti Sammana Samaroha and short film Bapa screening was organised at the Nursery Teachers’ Training Institute here on Sunday evening by the Nirmala Kruti Bikash Trust and the Dakshya Charitable Trust.
While Swastidipa Pattnaik performed Odishi dance, Subhashree Tripathy and Ajuba presented songs and magic show, respectively. Satavisha Das performed Sambalpuri dance.
The building design of the old age home called ‘Unity Retreat’ was also unveiled on the occasion.
Nirmala Kruti Bikash Trust chairman Er Dillip Pattnayak, Dakshya Charitable Trust chairperson Suniti Mund, Director Intelligence and Crime, Income Tax, Artabandhu Patra, State Culture Secretary Manoranjan Panigrahi, Water Resources Additional Secretary RS Gopalan and noted cine artist Anu Chowdhury graced the occasion as guests.
The guests spoke about how elder people are being neglected in the society. Income Tax Commissioner Sarat Kumar Das also scope.
“The proposed Old Age Home Unity Retreat at Mendhasala will shelter and nurture 100 elderly persons in a homely atmosphere, claimed Pattnaik.
The elderly people will have every opportunity to live to the fullest, promised Suniti.
‘Bapa’, a short film on an elderly person, directed by Manas Parida and written by Dillip Pattanayak, was screened on the occasion.
Noted personalities like litterateur Sarat Kumar Dash, journalists Dayanidhi Das and Bibhuti Barik, social worker Prakash Goel, rangoli artistes Khirasindhu Bhoi and Manash Ranjan Panda, painter Chintamani Biswal, singer Surendra Naik, Odishi artiste Ashok Kumar Das and youth leader Chinmaya Sahu were felicitated.