Orissa de Tour

This adventure programme was started from the front of the Sun Temple, Konark, the glory of India, flag off by 3 National Youth Awardees, Manoj Kumar Tripathy, Durga Prasad Tripathy and N.A.Shah Ansari along with presence of several social activists and dignitaries. This innovative attempt has been taken to encourage the National Youth Awardees towards the youth community & to encourage the participants towards youth activities. Then the participants moved with their bicycles towards other destinations fixed before for different programme and night halt. A caravan had also moved with the participants in attractive decoration and message.

As the programme aims to promote youth participation in Panchayatiraj System ,the theme of the programme was NAMASKAR-we salute the source in you. With Namaskar the participants respect the source among the people, they meet. As every citizen have unique & individual skills & singled out personality, initiative has been taken through this programme to promote their participation in each & every level of community development &  in panchayatiraj system. The participants have reached in different colleges like Gop Konark College of Puri District, Eranch College of Cuttack District, Redhua College, SAN College, Kurtang, SVM College & A.S. College, Tirtol of Jagatsinghpur Dist, Bhadrak College of Bhadrak Dist, Chandikhole College of Jajpur Dist etc.& have talk with the students/NSS volunteers along with the Principal/Lecturers/NSS P.O. in meetings & have discussed regarding the theme of the programme to encourage them to be involved in this campaign for betterment of the society & common life. Within the route the participants have reached at several villages /town where they organized awareness based cultural programmes / meetings / personal talk with the local people. Within this route the participants have meet different NGOs like Lokbikash, Haridaspur, Jajpur, Jhalak, Puri, CDSR, Gop, WORLD, Charichak, FORD, Chandikhole, SevaMandir, Bhadrak, BharatJyoti, Keonjhar, etc who have cooperated & encouraged the participants.

As impact of this programme a number of response have been received by this office & the concern youths interested to know more information regarding Panchayatiraj system & requested to involve them in these types of  adventure Programme.