Doyen of Odia devotional songs Shantilata Barik, legendary mountaineer Kalpana Dash, inspiring teacher and literary genius Dr Sanghamitra Mishra and veteran Odia actress Namrata Das were felicitated as women legends here.
Saroj Dash, national coordinator of social organisation Kanyaa Anmol Hai (KAH) that organised the CharanSparsh Award giving ceremony, said, “Celebrating the life and work of our women is to inspire our next generation of women.”
Mountaineer Das said that when she will get an opportunity to go for mountaineering she will definitely take the ‘Kanya Anmol He’ logo along with Lord Jagannath Bana (Pataka).
Sasmita Dash (founder), Amiyabala Parida( president) Anshu Tripathy ( co-chairperson), Archana Panigrahi, Sagar Dash ( coordinator), Suryanarayan Mohanty and Tapaswini Pattnaik of the KAH were present.