BHUBANESWAR:
The three-day long 26th Capital Foundation Day celebration was kick-started by
the Capital Day Celebration Committee (CDCC) here on Sunday. For the first
time, Odisha Governor attended the celebration as a chief guest.
The celebration began with civilian
parade by CRPF jawans and OSAP personnel and motorcycle daredevil shows by the
students of the Maharishi College of Natural Law. Then Governor Dr SC Jamir
felicitated 12 persons with Rajdhani Gaurab Samman for excellence in their
duties. They were Dr Ashok Mohapatra, senior advocate Sidharth Das, social
activist Dr Badrinath Patnaik, actor Minaketan Das, actress Tandra Ray, retired
bureaucrat Rabinarayan Senapati, sportsperson Valena Valentina industrialist
Bhagatram Gupta, nurse Rojaline Seth, postman Atulya Kumar Panda, Traffic
Constable Harekrushna Satpathy and sweeper Ganga Ghadei.
Guest of the celebration
Bhubaneswar ADM Manoj Kumar Patnaik launched an online search portal KhojaKhoji.com
for the capital city on the occasion. CDCC president Pradosh Patnaik, vice
president Pradyumna Kumar Mohanty and general secretary Sanat Mishra were
coordinating the event.
The celebration will culminate on
April 15. Many events like cultural programmes will be organised during the rest
two days.
Notably, first Prime Minister of
India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had laid the capital city’s foundation-stone in
1948. Punjab capital Chandigarh
and temple city Bhubaneswar
were designed in the same era of the post-Independent India.
Bhubaneswar was planned by German
architect Dr Otto Koenigsberger.
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