Bhubaneswar: The International Women’s Day 2021 was organized by Aditya Aluminium, Lapanga, Sambalpur on 12th March 2021 at Maliatkra Playground of Lapanga GP which witnessed the footfall of more than 400 members of Women Self Help Group. These SHGs are being supported by Aditya Aluminium, Lapanga under Mission Shakti and are actually working to build an healthy and empowered society in COVID -19 world. The theme of this year’s celebration was “Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID 19 world”.
Mrs. Gitanjali Mishra, the District Social Welfare Officer (DSWO) of Sambalpur graced the event as the Chief Guest. Other eminent guests on the occasion were Mrs. Minati Panigrahi District Mission Shakti Coordinator, Mr. Niranjan Panda District Programme Coordinator Mission Shakti, Mrs. Sudhanshubala Muduli Principal Deaf & Dumb School Jharsuguda, Mrs. ManaswiniRanasingh SI Central Reserve Police, Mr. Shankar Prasad Sahu, Block Development Officer Rengali, Mr. Satyanarayan Agarwal Vice Chairman Rengali Block, Mr. Sesadev Padhan Sarpanch Bomoloi, representatives from Agriculture and Horticulture Department Mr. Jagannath Dash DPD, KadambiniSathpathy, Mrs. Sudharani Pattnaik, Mr. Ramakanta Biswal The Common Times, Rajib Mishra SwadhinEktaParishad, Dr. Vivekanand Mishra Head HR, Mr. Ghanshyam Parida Head CPP, and Satya Das Head ER of Aditya Aluminium.
The speakers on the occasion emphasized upon the need to provide equal opportunities to women in all spheres without any gender discrimination. Everyone unanimously accepted the enormous contribution of women towards the society in each and every domain.
The HR Head of Aditya Aluminium, Dr. Vivekanand Mishra applauded the efforts of women employees in the company and said that going forward the Company will have 30% women employees.
Prior to this grand event, Women’s Sports had been successfully organized by the Aditya CSR team in 9 clusters across 6 operational GP where 475 members from 120 SHG, had participated with great enthusiasm.
