Scholarships to deserving students by Dr Satyananda Panda Memorial Trust
Dr Satyananda Panda Memorial Trust – On the fourth anniversary of Dr Satyananda Panda’s death, the Dr Satyananda Panda Memorial Trust presented scholarships to deserving students at Janata Nodal School, which he founded in his native hamlet of Jhimani in the Kujang block in Jagatsighpur district.
Subrat Das and Gayatri Sutar, both of Janata Nodal School, and Ankita Behera, Annapurna Das, of Naryan Birabara Samant College in Jhimani, were each awarded a scholarship in remembrance of Dr Panda, a prominent educationist, social worker, and writer from Jagatsinghpur district.
The school’s headmaster Janaki Ballabha Mohanty, Chandrakanta Das, the former headmaster of the small school, and other school and professor Kishore Jena, Susama Mohapatra, B K Sethi, and Subash Panda Dr. Panda’s Narayan Birabar Samant College, which was founded under his sponsorship, presented the students with trophies and cash after paying glowing tribute to the departed soul, the state’s first Ph.D. holder in Anthropology who conducted a study on Odisha’s fisherman community.
Dr Satyananda Panda Memorial Trust
Other dignitaries, including members of the Trust Rabin Kar, Prakash Panda, and other dignitaries, were present on the occasion and paid tribute to Dr Panda. The trust has granted scholarships to 17 economically deserving students in the area so far.
Dr. Panda had given up his job as a faculty member at Utkal University and built and supervised many educational establishments in and around his village, worked with displaced land losers in Paradip’s industrial belt, and was affiliated with many such organizations. He was a bright scholar who had edited over ten periodicals, written pieces for numerous journals and newspapers, and published two books. After his death in 2019, the trust published his final work, History of Paradip, which depicted the socio-anthropological life of the coastal region around the port city.
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