Organised 230 blood donation camps; planted 5K saplings
Khirod Sahoo, a youth from Talcher, was felicitated on August 29 with State award for Social Service for the year 2017 in recognition of his outstanding work in the field.
Sahoo received the award from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the presence of Finance Minister Sashi Bhusan Behera, Rajya Sabha MP DilipTirky and other dignitaries in a function organised by the Department of Sports and Youth Services, Odisha, at the Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar. The award carries a cash award of Rs 25,000 and a citation.
Sahoo is a known person in the locality for his social service. Inspired from childhood as a scout volunteer in school, Sahoo took to social service as his prime mission in life. Be it blood donation, helping accident victims or patients, Sahoo is ever prepared.
He arranged more than 230 voluntary blood donation camps as a full time Red Cross volunteer since 2006.
He also joined several plantation programmes organised by different institutions, with a record of planting over 5,000 saplings. For his contribution towards the environment, he was awarded as ‘Prakruti Bandhu’ by the Angul Collector in 2015.
Sahoo is very much popular for bike ambulance, a new concept to carry needy patients from their homes and accident victims to hospitals. The idea came to his mind when he purchased a motor cycle in the year 2010, he told. He always wears a white dress and stays in his paternal thatched house at his native village Ghantapada under Talcher Sub Division.