lifetime Members of the Indian Red Cross Society have demanded that a statue of International Red Cross founder and Nobel prize winner Jean-Henri Dunant be set up at the Red Cross Bhawan here on his 190th birthday on May 8.
The International Red Cross Day is observed every year on May 8 as Henri Duant was born on the day in 1828. He had received Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. The Red Cross Society founded by Henri Dunant is now operating in 185 countries. In India, the society had come into being in 1920 and as a branch of it Odisha Red Cross Society began working in 1936.
A statue of Duant should be established at the Red Cross Bhawan here so that Youth Red Cross and Junior Red Cross students and lifetime members of Indian Red Cross society to remember the legendary easily, demanded lifetime members, including Dillip Dashsharma.