The arrangements for the 'Rajyotsava 2014' celebrations are going on in full swing at the Pandit Shyama Prasad Mukherjee premises in Naya Raipur.
The State festival will be held for three days from November 1 this year, officials stated. Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand on Wednesday reviewed the arrangements for the festival with the senior officers in a meeting held at the Mantralaya here.
Transport facilities, Parking, seating arrangements, drinking water, medical facilities, electricity, fire brigade and security apparatus were reviewed in the meeting.
The Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) will make special bus arrangements to the venue. The stalls at the venue were allocated for exhibition of development of various sectors. Apart from the stalls of State Government departments, public sector undertakings and private enterprises stalls will be exhibited.
There will be cultural programmes on all the three days during the conduct of the festival. The officials said that there will be lighting arrangements at all the Government offices on November 1. The General Administration Department (GAD) has issued an order to this effect.
Principal Secretary, Public Works Department and Public Relations Amitabh Jain, Cultural Department Secretary RC Sinha, Secretary, Home Department Ashok Juneja, Commissioner of Raipur division Bl Tiwari, Collector Thakur Ramsingh, Director, Public Relations Rajat Kumar and senior officers of various departments were present in the meeting.