Principal Secretary Culture and Tourism Sheo Shekhar Shukla said that various entertaining competitions would be organised along with cultural presentations in the Nimar Utsav.
Cultural presentations and various activities will be organised every day from 7 pm in Nimar Utsav to be held from November 19 to 21 at Devi Ahilya Ghat, Maheshwar in Khargone district.
The Nimar festival will have art and culture lovers as well as engaging activities for all age groups. The event is being organised under the joint aegis of Directorate of Culture, Tribal Folk Arts and Dialect Development Academy, South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur and District Archaeological Tourism and Culture Council, Khargone.
Shukla said that in the Nimar Utsav this year, handloom walk is being organised by the Tourism Department for tourists on November 20 and 21 from 10 am to 12 noon. In the handloom walk, tourists will visit the weavers village with the help of local guides. This will increase the income of the local weavers as well as provide interesting information to the tourists about the art of weaving. Shri Shukla has cordially invited all the citizens to the Nimar festival. Admission to the presentations will be free for all.
In Nimar Utsav, on November 19, there will be a rally in the School of Excellence from 8 am, Kabaddi competition for boys group from 9 am and Rangoli competition, boat decoration competition and martial arts demo from 2 pm at Devi Ahilya Ghat. On the same day Durga dance drama in Gangaur and Kathak style will be presented from 7 pm by Sanjay Mahajan and companions of Barwah and Padmashri Malini Awasthi of Lucknow will present Awadhi singing.
Similarly, on the second day on November 20, there will be a wrestling competition in the boys and girls category from 10 am in the School of Excellence. After that Mehndi competition will be held at Devi Ahilya Ghat from 12 noon, Malkhamb demo at Navra Saudi Ghat and Kayaking demo at Devi Ahilya Ghat from 6:30 pm. In the evening of the same day Ganga Jamuna-Saraswati based Triveni dance drama will be presented by Kishore Hamipali and colleagues of Nagpur and Jaya Nritya Natika in Bundeli and contemporary dance forms will be presented by Yogendra Singh Rajput and colleagues of Bhopal. This will be followed by devotional singing by Sushri Prajakta Modak of Indore and her companions.
On the last day of Nimar Utsav, on November 21, at 9 am, a Kabaddi competition of girls category will be organised in the School of Excellence and 50m Kayaking competition will be organised at Devi Ahilya Ghat from 10 am. On the same day, from 7 pm in the evening, Manjumani Hatvalne and colleagues of Adhya Nritya Natika Bhopal will perform in Bharat-Natyam style. After this, a Kavi Sammelan (poets meet) will be held, in which Surendra Sharma of Delhi, Jagdish Solanki of Kota, Devvrat Bajpai of Lucknow, Kirti Kale of Delhi, Sandeep Sharma of Dhar, Jagdish Joshila of Gogawan, Harish Dubey of Maheshwar, Virendra Choure of Pandhana, Deepak Pagare of Sanawad, Narendra Joshi of Khargone, Vijay Sharma of Khalghat and Brijesh Badole of Khargone will give performance of their compositions.