Noted scientist, Padmashree Dr PK Jena was felicitated on behalf of the Clean Bhubaneswar City Club by former IGP Kulamani Deo at a meet at the BJB Nagar Park.
Notably, the nonagenarian scientist and founder Director of RRL, Bhubaneswar, has been undertaking a massive awareness campaign among the denizens of Bhubaneswar over the last decades to keep the city environmentally clean and green.
Deo said that Dr Jena is an example by himself to all sections of the society in his endeavour to spread the awareness campaign at this age with unflinching zeal and determination, for which he deserves unequivocal commendation and gratitude.
Prominent among others present were former administrator Raghunath Mishra, Prof Himansu Pattanaik, Captain Saroja Kumar Patra, Prof Rana, former bureaucrat Rajendra Jena and CA Vivek Das.