A four-day Hindu Spiritual Service Mela would be held at the Baramunda Grounds here from December 15 to 18. For the Mela organised by the city-based Initiative for Moral and Cultural Foundation, Odisha, various programmes have begun to involve educationists and students.
To create awareness among school students in six subjects, competitions have begun in science, quiz, drawing, sports, debate and patriotic songs. The Mela would first start at school level, then at zonal level and in the end the finals would be held. In total 40 types of competitions would be held.
The inaugural function of the event was held in the Vani Vihar High School premises presided over by the high school Head Mistress Manorama Mishra. The organisation’s State president Murli Manohar Sharma and Biswa Sambad Kendra State president and columnist Niranjan Padhi inaugurated the function. The foundations State coordinator for schools and colleges Deba Prasad Mishra, Manoj Maharana and Chakradhar Tripathy were present.