Prime Minister Narendra Modi would address the nation on the eve of International Gita Mahotsav on December 9.
“His address on the theme of International Gita Mahotsav, would be telecast through Akashvani and Doordarshan,” said Haryana Tourism Minister Ram Bilas Sharma.
The State Government has also invited the Prime Minister to attend the International Gita Mahotsav to be held in Kurukshetra.
Sharma while presiding over a meeting to review the arrangements being made for International Gita Mahotsav-2016, at Kurukshetra said that the State Government is working at a fast pace towards developing Kurukshetra as the cultural capital.
Besides, it has been planned to take tourists on ‘48 Kos Parikrama’. The government would now work on giving final shape to Saraswati and 48 Kos Parikrama projects, said he.
Saras and Crafts Mela would begin on December 1 and the President Pranab Mukherjee would inaugurate International Gita Mahotsav on December 6. He would also lay the foundation stone of Shri Krishna Circuit project, besides, inaugurating International Gita Seminar in the auditorium of Kurukshetra University, said Sharma.
He said that the biography of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar would be unveiled at Ambedkar Chowk in Kurukshetra on the occasion of his death anniversary on December 6.
Managing Director, Haryana Tourism Development Corporation, Sameer Pal Srow said that publicity of the Mahotsav was being done through radio jingles, television, print media and social media so that complete information about the Mahotsav could reach the people across the globe.
More than 50 hoardings related to the Mahotsav would be displayed in each district, with about 1,000 hoardings to be displayed in Kurukshetra, he added.
The mega event would set a world record with the recitation of ‘Ashtadash Shaloki Gita’ by as many as 18,000 students at one go. Besides, it is for the first time that it will be simultaneously chanted by hundreds of people in many countries of the world.
Youths from 574 districts of the country would reach Kurukshetra, showcasing one Shloka each scripted on their traditional dresses. They would also bring along sand from their respective districts which would be utilized to make an idol of lord Krishna to symbolise unity and integrity of the country.