President Pranab Mukherjee will give away national tourism award in New Delhi on Tuesday to Chhattisgarh Tourism Board for producing best tourism literature in different languages, informed in an official statement issued here on Monday.
The president will hand over the award at a specially organised function at Vigyan Bhavan at 12 pm, the tourism board general manager Santosh Mishra who will receive the award on behalf of the state government said.
Chief Minister Raman Singh and tourism minister Ajay Chandrakar have congratulated the tourism board for this achievement.
It was for the first time after formation of the separate state, Chhattisgarh has been selected for the award. Mishra said on the direction of the state government, the Chhattisgarh Tourism Board has created colourful folders and other literatures and brochures on different places of tourism importance in multiple languages.
The folders created on important tourist destination, places of religious importance, wild life include Sirpur, Rajim and Chitrakot etc. They contain colour presentation of state’s handicraft, handloom, folk dance, and wild life.
The languages in which the presentations have been made include Korean, Japanese, Sinhalese, German, and Thai. Apart from that folders have also been made of different Indian languages.
The literary presentations of Chhattisgarh’s art and culture have also been made in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and Guajarati, he said. The central government presents the awards to state governments, union territories and many others in recognition of their performance in their respective fields and also to encourage healthy competition with an aim to promote tourism.