The Chhattisgarh Government would create models of Bastar and Surguja division jungles and other natural beauty of Chhattisgarh in the proposed film city to come up at Naya Raipur.
The nature based models would be created for enabling shooting of films which would also help showcase Chhattisgarh in global cinematic space, officials informed.
The Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) has earmarked 10 acres of land for the Film City.
The Chhattisgarh Government is now betting big on promoting film industry by planning to develop world-class film production infrastructure in the State.
last month, a delegation of Chhattisgarh Film industry artistes and technicians met Chief Minister Raman Singh at his official residence here which expressed gratitude towards the Government recently deciding to form the ‘Chhattisgarh State Film Development Corporation'.
The delegation comprised Prakash Awasti, Rajesh Awasti, Ashish Shandre, Siddarth Rajput, Ravi Sahu, Pushpendra Singh, Alka Chandrakar, Anikruti Chauhan, Pushpanjali Sharma and several other artistes were also present.
Notably, Chief Minister Raman Singh early this month had inaugurated ‘Aamcho Bastar' open-air exhibition at based 'Purkhauti Muktangan' premises here.
later, Singh also carried out bhumi pujan of 'Tribal Research and Training Institute' and Tribal Museum in the new capital.
On the occasion, the Chief Minister said that ‘Purkhauti Muktangan’, developed by State Government’s Culture Department will become the centre of attraction for people in India and abroad.
‘Purkhauti Muktangan’ provides glimpses of culture and traditions of tribes living in various regions of Chhattisgarh along with the ancient tribal culture of Bastar and Surguja, he said.
On the occasion, Singh said that 'Aamcho Bastar' reflects tribal culture of Bastar.
Notably, on February 15 this year, Chief Minister Raman Singh had held a discussion with noted film producer Subhash Ghai in Mumbai regarding scope of film production, setting up of a Film City and Film Institute in Chhattisgarh.
It may be recalled that Naya Raipur is also among five other cities in the country chosen as ‘Demonstration Cities’ for the Centre’s ambitious Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP).
The final five cities participating as 'Demonstration Cities' under Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) are - Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Mysore (Karnataka), Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad (Maharashtra).
Detailed project profiles were prepared by all cities with the assistance of the SUTP Consultants and then endorsed by the SUTP Steering Committee to be included to SUTP as ‘City Demonstration Projects’, officials stated.
NRDA to cite an example is also going for an ‘Intelligent Rain Water Drainage System’ fixed with indicators to send alert before water logging or flood situation with option for automatic valve opening system, officials stated. It plans a project comprising IT-enabled systems to manage a host of utilities using state-of-art technology.