Dr UN Majhi, a former senior education officer in the State’s Department of School & Mass Education, has now been nominated as a member in the committee for the National Council for Senior Citizens.
This notification was released last week by the Union Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. The communiqué said Dr Majhi would shoulder this responsibility for a period of three years commencing from March 2024.
Dr Majhi has rendered his valuable services to Government of Odisha by working in ten districts having had his greatest contribution towards maintenance of quality of education in the State, for which he is held in high esteem in the educational circles.
Further, Dr Majhi has had been publishing the internationally-acclaimed English literary research journal ‘The Rock Pebbles’ since 1987.
The news of Dr Majhi’s nomination by the GOI has released a joyous enthusiasm among the intellectual elites and among the senior citizens of the State.