The Nature Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS) celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People at the Government Tribal High School, Deranga here. On the occasion, several awareness activities were organised for the tribal students.
“The indigenous communities can be saved through public learning, positive thinking and proper highlighting of their surrounding,” opined NEWS secretary and environmentalist Prasanna Kumar Behera.
Others who spoke included Pradeep Sahu, school headmaster Gadhadhar Behera and assistant teachers lambodar Nandhi, Birabar Nayak and Sanjeeb Behera. They called for a need to preserve the traditional knowledge and culture of the indigenous people and primitive tribes.