Even as 22nd Jagatsinghgpur Book Fair was put on hold this year due to the Covid 19 pandemic but to mark the occasion a celebration was organised through virtual mode on Friday.
District Collector-cum-chairman Jagatsinghpur Sanskrutika Parishad Sangram Keshari Mohapatra inaugurated the event in presence of Parishad office bearers and others.
Joint secretary Sudhir Kumar Mohanty delivered the inaugural speech and spoke on the book fair’s history since 2000 without break.
Parishad working president Biplab Choudhury chaired the meeting. A souvenir was released by Collector Mohapatra, besides a few books. Those felicitated included district NIC head Jyoti Prakash Behera, Sahoo Cable proprietor Bharat Chandra Sahoo and those connected on the occasion through virtual manner were District Information and Public Relations Officer Kaminiranjan Patnaik and Parishad office bearers Sarada Prasad Das, Ganeswar Mania, Naresh Das, Prasanta Kumar Mohapatra, Mahendra Acharya, Dr Ajaya Kumar Mishra , scribes Pinaki Mohanty, Pradipta Kishor Choudhury, Manoj Dash, Radhakanta Mishra, Duryodhan Moharana, , Sasanka Sekhar Panda and Udaya Swain.