A three-day long Aitihya Mahotsav, a photo exhibition on Buddhist heritage, was inaugurated here by Health and Family Welfare and Information and Public Relations Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak on Friday. Around 70 photos on Buddhist heritage have been displayed at the fair. Appreciating the effort of the organisers, the Minister called upon Buddhist researchers and scholars for promotion of Buddhist heritage.
The Minister also lauded the initiatives being taken by the Tourism Department for promotion of the tourism sector in the State. legislators, bureaucrats, mediapersons, academicians, researchers, scholars, travel writers, intellectuals, students of ancient Indian history and Archaeology, Buddhist and cultural studies, anthropology and social anthropology of different colleges and universities and school are participating in the event.