Taranga, a social service group of Sunabeda, organised a special programme in the premises of the local Hanuman temple and distributed reading and writing materials to the children of priests of different temples here on Thursday.
Attending as the chief guest of the programme, eminent trade union leaders Ramesh Chandra Mohanty and Trinath Patnaik appreciated the noble deeds of the Taranga. Former presidents of Taranga Narayan Mishra, G Giribabu and V Ramakrishna and adviser Shaik Ibrahim felicitated nine priests with presentation of gifts.
They also expressed their concern about the plight of the priests and appealed to all concerned to pay heed to the financial problem of the priests. A quiz programme was also conducted for the students and winners were felicitated with prizes. Taranga general secretary Bhubaneswar Patnaik along with Susant Kumar Mallick, Chintamani Prusty, Meena Kumari Prusty, Shobha Chandra Raha, Samaru Barik and Kandarpa Behera were present on the occasion.