The Twenty-Second State Youth Festival was inaugurated on Saturday at the SCS College grounds here by local MlA Mahaswar Mohanty in the presence of Minister Sanjay Kumar Dasburma and Nimapara, Kakatpur and Satyabadi MlAs Samir Ranjan Dash, Surendra Kumar Sethy and Umakanta Samantray, respectively.
About 1,600 youths from the State’s 30 districts are participating in the three-day-long festival, during which competitions in song, dance and drama would be held and the successful youths would be awarded prizes and certificates on the concluding day.
District Sports Officer Rabindra Kumar Senapati is conducting the proceedings of the festival. District Collector Arabind Agarwal and Superintendent of Police Dr Sartthak Sarangi, Media Coordination Committee Chairman Madhusudan Dash and other officers of the concerned departments were present at the inaugural function.