The District Committee Meeting of Youth Red Cross Unit, Gajapati, was organized under the chairmanship of Prof (Dr) Sanjay Kumar Mallik, Principal of SKCG (Auto) College on July 8.
The meeting basically aimed at assessing the activities and programmes of the previous year and preparing the action plan for the current session. The welcome address was delivered by counsellor-cum-convener secretary, YRC, Gajapati Binayak Prasad Pradhan.
“The Red Cross has been striving hard to promote a better sense of cooperation, friendship and amity among all the human beings right from its inception,” said Pradhan while addressing the august gathering.
Prof Mallik presided over the meeting and assured to extend all sorts of assistance as admissible on the part of SKCG as the nodal college of the district in coming days.
District coordinator, YRC, Gajapati Dr Pradipta Sarangi focused upon the activities undertaken by the counsellors of the district in previous year and induced the counsellors of various colleges of the district to organize different programmes as per the guidelines of the Youth Red Cross, State Branch, Odisha for the current session. Adoption of village, observation of the World AIDS Day, Youth Day, blood donation camps and different other constructive and philanthropic activities were proposed to be organised by the counsellors for the current academic session (2017-18).
The counsellors actively participated in the meeting and contributed to the discussion by providing their valuable suggestions and feedback. Finally, the meeting was wound up with a vote of thanks, proposed by YRC counselor Dr Sashikant Mohapatra.