Popular singer Kailash Kher met the Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat here on Monday and also made a presentation for the CM and others of the musical serial made on Kedarnath shrine.
The CM Harish Rawat directed the Chief Secretary Shatrughna Singh to hold a meeting with officials concerned of the Tourism department and the department of information and public relations in order to draft a plan for ensuring the desired utilisation of this musical serial. The CM opined that the musical serial will be helpful in presenting information about the ancient spiritual importance, traditional and other aspects of the Char Dham shrines-especially the Kedarnath temple across the nation and abroad. The CM also spoke of preparing very short films of about two minutes duration each on the subject.
Speaking on the occasion, Kher informed that the 12-episode musical serial has been prepared with the Kedarnath temple and area as the background. He further said the each of the episodes of this musical serial will be of 40-minute duration in addition to which he also said that about 15 well known personalities had also participated in the initiative. Various regional languages and some foreign languages have also been taken up to maximise publicity. The singer further averred that considerable research had to be undertaken in order to ascertain authentic information related to the various aspects of Kedarnath.The State Finance and Parliamentary Affairs minister Indira Hridayesh, Revenue minister Yashpal Arya, Tourism minister Dinesh Dhanai, MSME minister Harish Chandra Durgapal and Health minister Surendra Singh Negi were also amon those present on the occasion.