President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the International Gita Festival on December 6 and lay the foundation stone of the Rs 97.35 crore Krishna Circuit in Kurukshetra to give a massive face-lift to Kurukshetra and the places associated with Mahabharata. The project will be a step forward in projecting Kurukshetra on the global tourist map.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday, Chief Minister, Manohar lal, said that the central Government had released the first installment, 20 per cent of the amount, for the project.
He said the grandeur and global scale of the first-ever International Gita Mahotsav, being celebrated by the Haryana Government in Kurukshetra from December 6 to 10 will offer spectators a spectacle to watch, a memory to cherish, and make for a nucleus of attraction for the people from around the globe.
The event will set a world record with the recitation of ‘Ashtadash Shaloki Gita’ by as many as 18,000 students. Besides, it is for the first time that it will be simultaneously chanted by hundreds of people in many countries of the world. During the Mahotsav, youths from 574 districts of the country would reach Kurukshetra, showcasing one Shloka each scripted on their traditional dresses.
Khattar said that the mega event would mark the birth anniversary of Bhagvad Gita, and, that too, at the sacred place where lord Krishna delivered celestial message of Gita to a wavering Arjuna.