The Utkal Divas was celebrated in a big way with holding of Swachchh Bharat awareness rallies and cultural programmes by different Government and private organisations across Koraput district.
The observance of the day started with garlanding of legendaries’ statues at different places. For the first time, the Jeypore Municipality observed the day in a different way under the joint leadership of the Sub-Collector and Executive Officer Chakravardhan Singh Rathore. Awareness programmess for keeping the town and villagers clean were organised. Members of organisations like PPACC, SEEWA and Patanjali, youths, media people and police and district administration personnel were divided ward-wise groups to make people aware to keep their respective wards clean and not to put garbage on roads.
A badminton match among the administration and police officials, lawyers and media representatives was organised. The PPACC organised a street play and a bike rally to make people aware of bad impacts polythene use and importance of keeping surrounding clean.