Chandi Prasad Pattanaik is awarded "BEST ACHIEVER’S AWARD-2021" as the title of “BEST PHILANTHROPIST AWARD” by Magic Book of Records on Sept 10, 2021, in the field of Social Service.
ABOUT:
Mr. Chandi Prasad Pattanaik was born at Jagannath Dham Puri which is otherwise known as Shreekhetra Puri, Odisha on 5th December, 1979. His father is Mr. Bijay Kumar Pattanaik, a renowned journalist and mother is Mrs.Soubhagya Pattanayak, a housewife cum renowned poet and writer.
Though his birthplace is Puri, the soil of Keonjhar which is the silent prove of Rebelion Dharanidhar, became his work place. He has completed his High School education from N.S Police High School, Keonjhar, Graduation from S.C.S College Puri, P.G Diploma in journalism & mass communication from Open University Sambalpur, Masters in Social work from Kalinga University,Raipur, Chhatisgarh ,Certificate course on Journalism and Mass communication from puri, D.El.Ed. from DIET, Keonjhar etc. When he was in class VIII, he became a part of Scout, which affects his life very much. At that time he was involved in various social works. During that time the feelings of service, towards mankind /needy people, helpfulness, care etc. were developed in him.
However, in due course, Keonjhar, one of the tribal dominated district of Odisha has became his work place and he started serving the down trodden of Keronjhar district. During his studentship in High school he got enough scope to voluntarily work as a scout. He got the same opportunity to work being rover & NSS volunteer for 5 years of long duration in his collage life. Thereafter, during his LLB education, he was associated with Nehru Yuva Kendra (Govt. of India) as a National service volunteer. He had also participated and took the leadership role in several State & National level Youth leadership & service camps, training, relief works, different Awareness campaign ,social activitie and National Integration camps by deferent Govt. and Non Govt. Agencies .
Volunteering gave him happiness, peace & pleasures more, so he didn’t give importance to his parents dreams to work as a Government Employee. From his childhood, Chandi Prasad was influenced by his uncle, who is a person with Intellectual Disability & 2 Cousin brothers those are persons with Cerebral Palsy. By seeing their conditions, situations in their family, unacceptance by their family members, he was very much worried, pity & shocked. Such a situation made him thought provoking & then he began the think “Why the almighty has brought me on this Earth? In what way & how can I contribute for the people in need and serve them to make their life better.” This thought inspired him to do something better for the survival, social security, welfare, care & protection and dignity of the lives of the disabled. This is the main reason behind in choosing the field of Disability for working.
He was the founder of 2 Special Schools. One is for Intellectual Disability children & another is for Cerebral Palsy children. People those who are needy and belong to extremely vulnerable section of population of our society. During super cyclone in 1999, under the leadership of Chandi Prasad the youth mass performed relief work, livelihood restoration programme of Neheru Yuba Kendra. For this relief work he won Shreekehtra Shree Samman by Shreekehtra Shree community,Puri , NSS Best Volunteer Award by Utkal University & District Youth Award by Neheru Yuva Kendra, Govt. of India. He has also lead various National & International Youth camps by representing Odisha.
By taking some young, energetic youths under the leadership of Chandi Prasad, “SADBHABANA” was formed in 2001. After formation of “SADBHABANA” they have started working on AIDS Awareness, HIV Awareness Programmes run by UNESCO. They have worked for the social acceptance, health, livelihood, mainstreaming, Advocacy for their Rights of the HIV +ve people under his leadership. In order to achieve the Rights of the HIV +ve people, he formed Positive People Movement (PPM) Network. Now he has been working as the Secretary of “SADBHABANA” since 2005.
In the year 2008 he formed a Residential Rehabilitation Home named, PRAYAS for the Intellectual Disability and Cerebral Palsy children for their Education, Therapeutic Intervention, Recreational activities, Livelihood support etc. Since 2008, he have been completely working with dedication, determination and commitment to the best of his ability for the upliftment of downtrodden & deprived section with special focus on disabled people of Keonjhar District. Community Based Rehabilitation programme is done by ‘Sadbhabana’ in the guidance & supervision of Chandi Prasad for those who are left in the out reached area of these hilly, forest & tribal district. This programme is meant for the illiterate, financially not sound & according to the severity of their disability condition etc. Those have no disability certificates Sadbhabana facilitates them to get their UDID (disable certificate) certificates, also try to linkage with various Govt. Schemes, i.e., Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Banishree scholarships, Bus pass, Train pass etc. SADBHABANA provides Education, care, support, peer & Thematic counselling, Therapeutic services, facilitating their participation in District, State & National level sports and Games, Special Olympics, Dance & Art competition.
During Covid-19 Pandemic situation ‘SADBHABANA’ provided Dry Ration, masks, hand sanitizer, hand wash, fruits, medicines, room sanitizer etc. to 150 Disable families. During 2nd wave of Covid-19 pandemic and enforced lockdowns & shutdowns situation ‘SADBHABANA’ in the leadership of Mr. Chandi Prasad Pattanaik provides cooked food to the relatives & attendant of Covid patient sitting in front of Covid Hospital, District Head Quarters Hospital, Keonjhar, abandoned Street Beggars, Mental ill etc. uninterruptedly. This distribution process of cooked food is still continuing.
Apart from this, the team of SADBHABANA are providing Dry Ration & cooked food at the time of any Natural Calamities to the needy people of the affected areas in the leadership of Mr. Chandi Prasad.
In every weekend, the Sadbhabana team go for hair cutting & shaving of the abandoned people by maintaining proper Covid guidelines with required instruments.
At the time of cyclone Yaas in the leadership of Mr. Chandi Prasad Pattanaik the team of Sadbhabana distributed dry ration for 15 days to the affected poor & needy people of one of the most remote area of Keonjhar District.