People's Democracy

FOUNDER member and former president of the All India Insurance Employees Association (AIIEA), Chanderasekhar Bose, recently inaugurated the school building of Chandimata High School at Napanga in Bhandari Pokhari block of Bhadrak district in Orissa. The school was ravaged by the super-cyclone and flood of 1999 and was rebuilt by the Cuttack Division Insurance Employees' Association (CDIEA) with the funds collected at the call of the AIIEA from the LIC employees all over the country. Mr Bose said the AIIEA and its units have a social outlook and, during the last 50 years, apart from agitating for a solution of the problems of the LIC and GIC employees, they have always stood with the people affected by natural calamities.

Like the earlier project in Jagatsinghpur district, this school building too was dedicated to the memory of late Comrade Saurindranath Sircar, former president of the CDIEA and a leading trade union leader of the state.

Attending and addressing the inaugural function of the building, Srikanta Kumar Palkray (district collector, Bhadrak), T Chattopadhaya, (senior divisional manager, LIC, Cuttack division) and the inspector of schools, Bhadrak circle, also complimented the insurance employees for their contribution to the cyclone-ravaged region of Orissa.

Gajendranath Mohanty and Rabinarayan Mallick, president and general secretary respectively of the CDIEA, also addressed the largely attended meeting and detailed the relief work undertaken by the association in various cyclone-affected districts of Orissa.

As at Jagatsinghpur, construction of this school in Bhadrak became possible by the dedicated efforts of the leaders and leading functionaries of Bhadrak base unit of the CDIEA, under the leadership of its secretary, Pratap Kumar Patnaik, who is also one of the assistant secretaries of the CDIEA.

The leaders were taken to the venue of the inaugural function in a motor bike procession, covering around 10 km, and were accorded rousing reception at different spots en route.

At the end of the function, the school students performed a heart-touching dance drama, acclaiming the efforts of the AIIEA and its units.