Chhattisgarh Tourism Board (CTB) has begun preparations for ‘Sirpur Mahotsav-2015’ to be held next year in January at historical site, Sirpur.
The three-day National Dance and Music Festival will be organised from January 16 to January 18, 2015 at Sirpur as part of the ‘Sirpur Mahotsav-2015’.Tourism Minister Ajay Chandrakar has instructed the CTB officials to make all efforts to make the ‘Sirpur Mahotsav-2015’, a grand success. The CTB has also designed a brochure for this event.
Sirpur is 78 km away from Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur and is located on the banks of the river Mahanadi. Chhattisgarh Government is planning to develop Sirpur, known for its archaeological monuments, as a Buddist destination to woo foreign visitors.The laxman temple, Anand Prabhu, Kuti Vhar, Swastik, Vihar and other historic mouments are the main attractions here for the visitors. The great scholar and traveller from China, Huien Tsang had visited Sirpur in the 7th century.