A 15-day-long Adivasi Mela inaugurated at the Adivasi ground here in the city on Tuesday by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Visitors can witness the culture, tradition and life style of tribal people of the State in the Mela. The purpose of the fair is to showcase tribal art and culture, tradition, lifestyle, arts and crafts along with the exhibition of tribal products ranging from different forest produce to tribal commodities. Tribal people exhibited their products at around 180 kiosks.
The fair also brought various tribal home decor crafts and spices, artifacts made of metal, wood, stone and other materials. With dummy huts the fair has been given the look of a tribal village.
Tribal people are also following the tradition of worshipping their village deities in the ground in their respective dummy huts in the ground.
The Mela exhibited the economical, cultural and social life styles of tribal people.
Cultural programmes would also be held in every evening of the fair.
For the benefit of the visitors, provisions like ATM, special police protection and control room, 25 CCTV cameras throughout the area were installed this year. The Mela, organised by the SC/ST Development Department, would continue till February 9.