City-based Tailik Vaisya Samaj, a powerful and sizeable community, will celebrate Boita Bandan Utsav at Haradakhandi tank on the Kartik Purnima, said Subash Chandra Sahu Roshan in a release here.
The festival is held to commemorate traditional maritime voyage by ancient traders of Odisha and make people aware of the Odisha’s ancient tradition.
According to the programme, hundreds of members of the Samaj will go in a colorful procession from Bhagabat Peetha near Samaj office of Kalupatra Street at 7 am in the morning with miniature boats in their hands and reach Haradakhandi tank to celebrate the festival.
Samaj secretary Rabindra Kumar Sahu said they have invited the public in the town to participate in the festival in large numbers.
Brahmapur Sub-Collector Nikhil Paban Kalyan will inaugurate the boat festival, while Brahmapur MP Siddhant Mahapatra will grace the event as distinguished guest. State president of the Samaj Raghunath Sahu will attend as chief speaker.