The International Women’s Day was celebrated by different organisations in the silk city on Wednesday.
The Nari Suraksha Samman Abhiyan organised a women’s rally and debate on ‘Protection of women’s safety and dignity’ presided over by a Sabita Sahukar. Among others, Rama Kumar Patro, Sham Sundar Khadanga, Bhishmacharya Choudhury and Basudev Sahu were present.
The District legal Services Authority, Ganjam orgainised a meeting in its premises to mark the day. District Judge Malay Ranjan Mohanty, Judge Pradip Kumar Patnaik, Sub-Judge Gyanendra Kumar Barik, SDJM Sarita Mohanty, CJM Prasanti Saa and JMFC Rama Devi Soren and Government Polytechnic College Principal Er GC Patro attended.
Similarly, The Kalinga Vysya Mahila Mahasangha, the CPI (Ml) Red Star and the Discover Media, Brahmapur held programmes and discussed on this year’s them, “Be bold for change”.
NCC girls of the SBR Women’s College too observed the day assisting the city traffic police in controlling traffic for over a hour. Sub-Collector Siddhartha Sankar Swain and Traffic DSP Thakur Prasad Patro were present.
The Day was also observed by the Ganjam Zilla lekhika Parishad, the Pal Charity India ltd, the Animesh Kala Kendra at different places in the city.