A group of 10 youth volunteers of Nehru Yuva Kendra (NYK), Nuapada returned to the district on Sunday after successfully participating in a five-day National Integration Camp held at Palamu of Jharkhand.
The camp was held under the Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat campaign with an aim to instil sense of patriotism, promote communal harmony, ideas of unity in diversity and promotion of spirit of national integration. “We were 250 youth volunteers of 15 States of the country, who took part in various cultural programmes during our stay. Our Nuapada group fetched the first prize for best performance in the cultural programmes,” said the youths who were felicitated by District Youth Coordinator Asish Thakur in NYK office, Nuapada.
“We received the award from Dinesh Pratap Singh, national Vice-President of Nehru Yuva Kendra,” they added. The youths will be felicitated in a district-level cultural programme to be held next month at Nuapada,” informed Thakur. The youths are Tikeswar Hans, Ajit Baitharu, Padmabati Sahu, Puja Sahu, Chandrakala Majhi, Jharana Bag, Anjali Sabar,Kishor Kumar Nag, Pratap Hans and Kailash Dharua.