Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh inaugurated the famous Sombhadra festival at Una on Sunday by participating in Shobha Yatra from Nagar Parishad park to Indira ground here.
The Chief Minister who reached here straight away from Ahmedabad in Gujarat after attending the investors’ meet there, participated in the Shobha Yatra of Sombhadra Utsav and marked its opening.
The festival named after Sombhadra River, now known as Swan is also associated with the formation of the district in 1972 and showcases rich cultural heritage of the district besides being historical.
The Chief Minister was given a warm welcome on reaching Una. Earlier, the Chief Minister performed the foundation stone laying ceremony of Rs88 lakh Swan Flood Monitoring Centre at Ghaluwal in Una district, the first of its type in Himachal Pradesh connected with satellites and radars to monitor the river flow during monsoons and the expected rainfall. This is a part of Rs922 crore Swan project being implemented in Una to chanellize river Swan and its 73 tributaries.