nThe State capital Raipur will be hosting a three-day state level youth festival from January 12.
Preparations for the festival have been started vigorously at the government-administration level, official sources said. It will be inaugurated on January 12 at 10 am in Raipur.
The purpose of the festival is to enhance the rural sports talent and promote the art and culture of Chhattisgarh.
Under Yuva Mahotsav, competitions have been organised at all the development blocks and district level of the state. The selected participants will showcase their sporting talent at the state-level youth festival in which 6521 participants from the age group of 15 to 40 years and above 40 years of age will participate. These include 3613 male, 2433 female participants and 301 male and 174 female officer employees.
Various sports competitions will be organized during this period along with folk dance, folklore, classical music, classical dance, one-act play, recitation, essay, painting, improvised speech, traditional costumes, debates, quizzes, food festivals.
The organisation of the state-level youth festival will be conducted and regulated in Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Auditorium, Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University auditorium, Science college auditorium, university sports campus in the State capital. In various organisation centers, from 9am till 8 pm, different kinds of skill competitions will be held.
On January 12, the main stage of the Sports Directorate campus will host Karma dance, second stage will host folk dance and Raut Nacha will be oragnized in the open stage while essay and painting competition will be conducted in the hall.
The Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Auditorium will hear the echoes of the folk songs, classical Hindustani and Carnatic music, guitar and sitar instrument playing competitions. There will be a tabla playing competition at Ekanki Drama and Science College Auditorium in Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla University Auditorium. Under sports category, Kho-Kho (women and men), Kabaddi (women) will be organized in the open ground of the university sports competition campus.
Under the Yuva Mahotsav, a competition will be held on January 13 in the main stage of the Directorate of Sports Complex displaying the folk dance, Surah dance.
Kathak, Odissi, Kuchipudi, Manipuri Dance Contest will be conducted in a 1500 seater hall, improvised speech in 100 seater hall, Bharatanatyam and traditional costumes competition and Flute recital competition in 60 seater hall will be organized in Pandit Deendayal Auditorium. There will be a competition of Harmonium, Mridangam and Veena instrumemt playing in Ekanki Drama and Science College Auditorium in Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla University Auditorium.
On January 14, the main stage of the Sports Directorate campus will be filled with the energy of the rock band and open stage will be filled with zeal and enthusiasm of fugdi, bumblebee competition. Debate and quiz competition will be held in the hall and food festival in the sports complex’s dome.
Organization of gedi races and semi-finals of Kho-Kho (Female / Male), Kabaddi (Female / Male) and Hardline match, will be conducted in Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla University Auditorium.
The closing ceremony will be held on January 14 at 2 pm in the Sports Directorate campus.