A district-level folk art festival was celebrated by the Kala Sanskruti Sangha, a wing of the Culture Department, to promote artistes here on Friday.
District Collector Bhupendra Singh Poonia inaugurating the programme said a community cannot survive without culture and tradition. He also said that children should be sensitised on the folk art in the technology-driven world.
Poonia informed that many steps are being taken by the State Government to develop the folk art and artistes.
Sangha president Ramchandra Kar, Khordha District Culture Officer Tapas Kumar Saha and ZP Literature and Culture Standing Committee Chairman Arjun Pradhan also spoke. Earlier, a Padyatra was taken out in which Ghodanacha and Pala artistes, Chakulia Panda took part and went around the town. The Padyatra culminated at the Sanskruti Bhawan here.