“Swarnim Vijay Mashal” was taken to the Hockey sports complex in Kalinga Stadium

Bhubaneswar: 2/11/21“Swarnim Vijay Mashal” was taken to the Hockey sports complex, Kalinga Stadium in the morning, venue for the upcoming under 21 World Hockey Championship and was received by Padamshree Dilip Tirkey and Lazarus Barla – Olympians, Indian Hockey Team and the men and women of under 21 Hockey team also paid their tributes, said an official press release of the Indian Army. The ‘Vijay Mashaal’ was subsequently taken to the OUAT Campus where it was received by Commodore Somen Banerjee, DDG, NCC Directorate, Odisha, and Dr. Pawan Kumar Agarwal, Vice-Chancellor OUAT.

Dr. Agarwal remarked that it was an honour for his institute to host the Swarnim Vijay Mashaal and also expressed his deepest gratitude to the valiant soldiers of Odisha who took part in the operations during the war. Later in the day, the Victory Flame was taken to the houses of 1971 War Veterans and Veer Naris, Wg Cdr A K Mahanti (Retd), Sunanda Nayak wife of Late Brig Narayan Nayak, and Bijay Laxmi Mohanty wife of Late Col M P Mohanty, Lt Col S K Mahapatra (Retd) and Brig R K Panda (Retd) where they paid their respect to the flame.