Friday, November 10, 2006

Anjali- National Children's Festival at Rourkela

Anjali,a programme for children with disability conceived and conducted by Dr. Sruti Mohapatra of Bhubaneswar. It was always conducted at Bhubaneswar for the last 5 years and Dr. Sruti and OSDN wanted to take the festival for the challenged to different parts of Orissa for more paricipation from local region and there was inaugurated at Rourkela today.Named Anjali-2006- National Children's Festival the programme is being conducted in Bhanja Bhavan premises at Rourkela by the District Administration of Sundargarh and Orissa State Disability Network, well supported by Rourkela Steel Plant.The Chairman of SAIL and MD, RSP visited Anjali despite the former's busy schedule at Rourkela Steel Plant which he was visiting officially.This year around 1000 outside participants have entered the programme from all over India and it was inaugurated by the Minister of State for Women & Child Development this evening. A few other names apart from Dr. Sruti Mohapatra, the creator of Anjali worth-mentioning for the success of Anjali-2006 are Ms. Sujata Pandiyan, IAS, District Collector, Sundargarh, the MLA of Rourkela Sri Sharada Naik,Dr. Kishan Kumar, ADM, Rourkela, Sri Sailil Patnaik, DIPRO Rourkela and Sri Kartik Pandav, Secretary, OSDN & Shradha-Rourkela.
A few pictures taken at Camp Anjali in Rourkela follows.
One can acess more pictures from postings above on different days of the camp.

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