A three-day ‘Chitrakot Mahotsava 2014’ will be held near the world famous Chitrakot Waterfall from February 26 this year.
A women’s ‘Kabaddi’ competition will be the main attraction of the Mahotsava, besides tug-of-war and volleyball competitions, according to an official press release issued here on Friday. District collector Ankit Anand had held an important meeting of departmental officers to take stock of the preparations being made for the festival. It was decided in the meeting that departmental exhibition would be held in the three-day Mahotsava.
The Collector directed the officers of the department concerned, including PWD, PHED, Health, Agriculture and Horticulture, to start preparations for the exhibition immediately. It was also decided in the meeting that, like last year, this year also the Regional Transport Authority would make arrangements for plying taxi on concessional rates from Jagadalpur to Chitrakot and vice versa during the festival days. The Collector has issued instructions in this regard to the RTO.
Colourful cultural programmes will be held in the evening every day, in which folk dance and Bastariya Naat will be special attraction. The stage of Chitrakot Mahotsava will be available for noted artistes. District Panchayat CEO Kl Chouhan, DFO Anil Soni, departmental officers and all the block education officers were present at the meeting.