In a joint collaboration of the International Odia Swabhiman Pratisthan , Delhi and the Mahan Sangh, Brahmapur, the first Jatiya Odisha Swabhiman Sammilani is going to be held at Dharmanagar here on December 28 and 29.
This was informed by Mahan Sangh president Susant Kumar Sabat at a Press meet here on Tuesday. During the Sammilani, seminars will be organised on seven topics: role of Odisha in national politics; contributions of Odia language, literature and culture in international field; agriculture, forestry and tourism vis-a-vis Odishan economy; role of RTI Act in ensuring healthy administration and corruption-free State; problems of Odias residing outside the State and their solutions; and justification of the demand to accord Special Category State status to Odisha.
A large number of academicians, scores of Ministers and legislators, including Revenue Minister Surjya Narayan Patro, Higher Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra, MPs Mohan Jena, Nityananda Pradhan, Renubala Pradhan and Baisnab Parida, local MlA RC Chyau Pattnaik, former Union Minister Chandrasekhar Sahu, founding president of Odisha Nagarik Samaj Dr Bhagaban Prakash; former Ministers Panchanan Kanungo, Biswabhusan Harichandan and Manmohan Samal; Vice-Chancellor of Berhampur University Prof Deepak Kumar Behera, poet Hussain Rabi Gandhi, social workers and administrators are invited to the Sammilani, said Sabat.
Three hundred delegates from different parts of the country are also likely to attend the event, he added.