A two-day All Odisha lawyers’ Conference will be held at the Vyasanagar Stadium here on December 29 and 30. More than 4,000 delegates from all over the State would participate in the event, said conference reception committee secretary advocate Chandra Sekhar Panda.
Panda said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who has agreed to inaugurate the conference, would also be felicitated on the occasion for contributing Rs1 crore to the lawyers’ welfare fund.
Others who would attend the conference are Supreme Court judges Ananga Pattanaik and Deepak Mishra, former SC judge Arijit Pasayat, former Advocate General Jayanta Das and State Bar Association President Bijan Ray.
All the hotels and guesthouses of the town have been booked for the conference. The budget of the event is about Rs30 lakh. Industrial houses like Tata, Jindal, NINl, Mesco and VISA have agreed to contribute funds. There would be symposiums on judiciary activism, media trial, torture on women and several other topics.
Governor SC Jamir, Union law Minister Kapil Sibal, Union Minister Srikant Jena and Rajya Sabha member Rama Chandra Khuntia have also agreed to attend the conference, Panda said. The reception committee has been formed under the chairmanship of advocate Hrusikesh Rout and 13 other committees have also been constituted for smooth organisation of the conference.
Jajpur district Collector Anil Samal held a meeting on Monday to facilitate the conference. lawyers of the district and departmental officials attended the meeting. There are 148 Bar Associations throughout the State having 47,000 lawyers as members. This will be the 42nd session of the lawyers’ conference.