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Jaya
Jagannath,
Ten top most personalities in terms
of Socio communal devotion, talent, potential, Credibility,
endurance and robustness that made them emerge as the millionth face
for the year 2008. Although Oriyan at Bangalore counts to mere two
percent of it’s crore head count, it’s highly essential to maintain
our cultural heritage and bind our community with love bond. At
needs of time many a people had demonstrated their extreme
capabilities and thus exceeded expectations setting bench marks in
terms of their performance with a clear margin of perfection.
Top Ten Bangalo-Oriyans 2008 are
:
1. Sri Upendra Tripathy ( IAS,
MD – BMTC ) : He is the man that made BMTC to commute 60 lakh
passengers a day making Rs. 700 Crores of profits per year. For his
immeasurable contribution to Karnataka Sri. Upendra Tripathy, IAS (
Managing Director, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation )
was honored with the highest civilian award in Karnataka
Extraordinaire Citizen Award for the year 2008.
2. Sri. Sushant Mohapatra
( ADG, Karnataka Police ) : Like Lord Vishnu on heaven,
He is the man on earth. May it be a day labor or even a beggar, Anyone
and everyone who has approached his door with a request or grievance
in hand, returned happy with problem solved and even many a times
much more than expectations.
3. Sri. Debeesantosh Prakash :
When Orissa was bleeding with flood, the most intolerable pain was
the extent of ignorance of the central government, depth of
partiality in responding to floods of Orissa as compared to that of
Bihar, volume of step motherhood attitude, bureaucracy, camouflaged
politics, crocodile cries( Kumvira Kandana ) of authorities,
ignorance and reluctance of relatives, family members and even
abroad settled off springs of the flood affected people, Sri
Debeesantosh Prakash was the first to came
out, sound the alarm bells, initiate, accelerate, administer and manage an end to end relief
campaign demonstrating the qualities of not less than any super human,
stretching himself beyond breakeven point. He is considered as the
highest valued personality of the year as his services to mankind
helped saving many lives of flood effected victims back in Orissa. Other creditors
of this campaign were Sri. Saroj Tripathy, Sri. Pranab Rana, Sri.
Amitabh Swain, Sri. Sourav Mallick and Sri. Siba Ram Baral.
4. Sri Vighnesh Rudra Das :
During Feb, 2008 till May Sri. Vighnesh Rudra Das Conducted and mentored a
massive Door to Door campaign, an adventurous initiative to go
around doors and gather donations towards answering the financial
crunch and funds shortage for Sri Jagannath Temple
Construction. The results were truly spectacular. Challenging the
hot sun, dusty wind and unknown locale, more than three and half lakhs
were gathered during these extremely hot and sunny adverse climatic
period. Hats off to his adventure. Credit also goes to his
associates during this campaign - Sri Saroj Tripathy, Sri Debeesantosh Prakash, Sri Siba
Ram baral, Sri. Chitta Rout, Sri. Biraj Bhuyan, Sri. Aurodeepta
Pattanayak and Sri. Nilakantha Mohanty.
5. Sri Siba Ram Baral : Name it
any event or occasion, he emerged as the man of honor. A man of all
talents, extreme potential, Never say No attitude, tremendously
energetic and robust person. Victories and achievements of Rath
Yatra, Flood Relief, Ganesh Puja, Sri Jagannath Temple construction, OCA or
Health Camp, He justifies his worth a million. A true Samaritan, A
pride of Oriya community at Bangalore, he is second to none. We at
Nilachakra team also proud to have him as administrator, manager for
our spectacular
Web Signature.
6. Sri Jyoti Ranjan Nayak
(Global Oriya maestro ): August 23rd Orissa witnessed the worst
cowardly and brutal act of crime ever seen by mankind. Vedanta
Kesari Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati ( a supreme saint of Adi
Sankaracharya cadre ) was shot dead at point blank range at his
ashram at Jalespata, Kandhamal district, while performing Janmastami
prayers. 22 bullets of AK 47 along with a note “to suffer if prevent
Hindus from converting to Christianity”, that snatched his life out
of him along with five of his devotees. Back at Bangalore a wave of
grief and grievances was spread like shock wave. Sri Jyoti Ranjan
Nayak and Sri Pravat Ch. Patra offered significant contributions
towards spreading the awareness, educating people with the
achievements of Swamiji.
7. Sri. Janaki Ballabh Mohapatra
: He is a bureaucrat who tailored a
16 head social
reformation formula for Orissa that got recognized and
appreciated by Chief
minister’s Office back at Orissa. His areas of concentration were 1-
Corruption, 2-Agriculture and Co-operative, 3-De-addiction, 4-Crime
and Violence, 5-Education, 6-Rural Community, 7-Urban Civilization,
8-Religion and Culture, 9- Ballot Box, 10- Peoples Court, 11- Women,
12-Trade and Commerce, 13-Health, 14-Sports, 15- Natural Resources
16-Industry and Technology.
8. Sri N K Jena : At 72 he
possess the stamina of a superman. Being one among the trustees and the
oldest life member to Sri Jagannath Temple, he takes care of temple
accounts and day to day activities of the temple effectively,
perfectly and efficiently. Respecting to his supreme service to the
temple, He has been honored with being our Royal king during Rath
Yatra 2008.
9. Sri Sangram Patnaik : He
masterminded a series of Oriya Opera by the most happening Gananatya
team from Orissa to entertain all Bangalo-Oriyans for the first
time. With the best of the pieces and shots from famous lines of
authors being served to us by the best artists of Orissa. The world
of Orchestra, Fun, Tragedy, Suspense and emotion flavored Bangalore
for 2 weeks
10.Sri Manoj Patra : He is the
man who has made Orissa Cultural Association and Sri Jagannath
Temple trust rolling on wheels since years. His contributions to
Oriya community has set a platform for continuous improvement of our
coexistence harmony on Karnataka Soil and Covalence bonding with
Locale.
The whole objective of this write up is to appreciate their selfless
sacrifice to the society and motivate others to walk along for the
common cause. If everyone of us do just something towards our
community, it’s no doubt we emerge the best breed of human
civilization in the world. Jaya Jagannath.
Regards
Team Nilachakra |
