Prem Chandra takes charge as BMC Commissioner
Bhubaneswar: IAS officer Prem Chandra Chaudhary assumed office as the Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday. He also took charge of as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited and Vice-Chairman of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA). Prior to this, Chaudhary was serving as the Collector of Kendrapada district. Meanwhile, former BMC Commissioner Samarth Verma has been appointed as Kendrapada Collector.
Minister pays surprise visit to city BEO office
Bhubaneswar: School & Mass Education Department Minister Samir Ranjan Dash paid a surprise visit to the office of the Block Education Officer (BEO) here on Thursday. Finding absence of some officials, he directed the BEO to issue show-cause notices to them. Dash also directed the BEO not to ask school teachers to come to his office during study hours.
Vikas Parishad holds blood donation camp
Bhubaneswar: The Bharat Vikas Parishad, Bhubaneswar Central in association with the Dr Suraj Prakash Skill Development Centre Bhubaneswar organised a blood donation camp on the birthday of Parishad founder Dr Suraj Prakash here on Thursday in which 54 units of blood were collected under the guidance of Capital Hospital Blood Bank Director Dr Debasish Mishra. Former students and teachers of Bharati Vidya Mandir also donated blood. Dr Jyostna Mahapatra, Bimal Mohanty, Bishnuprasad Tripathy, Sachidanand Mishra, Dr Sanjeev Panda, Dr Srikanta Patnaik, Pramod Dash, Sangeeta Dash and Sangeeta Patnaik were present. Jagannath Pradhan, Subhadra Mishra and Manoranjan Mohanty coordinated the programme.
Inter-school English debate held at DAV CSpur
Bhubaneswar: An all-Odisha Gopal Patnaik memorial inter-school English debate competition was conducted at the DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur here on Thursday in which 36 students from 18 schools from across the State participated. Anshuman Mohapatra of DAV Chandrasekharpur an Abhipsa Rout of DAV Berhampur jointly stood first. Jigyansha Sahu of DAV IFFCO Paradeep and Zoya Farah Hussain of DAV CDA Cuttack bagged the second and third prizes, respectively. Host school Principal Dr KC Satapathy honoured the winners. Dr AK Purohit, Dr AR Padhi and Dr Amrita Satapathy were the judges.
BoI donates Rs 6.61 cr for Fani victims
Bhubaneswar: The Bank of India (BoI) has contributed Rs 6.61 crore to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) to help Cyclone Fani victims. The bank’s MD and CEO Dinabandhu Mohapatra handed over a cheque of this amount to CM Naveen Patnaik here. Former Chilika BJD MLA Raghunath Sahoo donated his four months’ pension (Rs 1.20 lakh) to the CMRF for this purpose.