India International Trade Fair (IITF), Delhi witnessed a rocking day on Thursday with glittering extravaganza of folk dance and music programmes on the occasion of Jharkhand Day. Inaugurating the Jharkhand Day celebrations at the trade fair, Governor Droupadi Murmu expressed her pleasure of the State being participating there as a Partner State.
The Governor who was the Chief Guest on the occasion said that the different stalls in the Jharkhand Pavilion represented different regions of the state. Overwhelmed with the welcome offered to her at every stall in the state pavilion at 36th IITF, the Governor also encouraged every single exhibitor in the pavilion.Murmu inaugurated the cultural programmes which rocked the IITF and everyone present there. Folk dance forms of the state like Nagpuri, Mundari, Santhali, Chhau and many others kept the Governor and the audience spell bounded. The Governor repeatedly expressed happiness and pleasure with the cultural programmes at the occasion and the way they were presented.
Focusing over government’s ambitions to take Jharkhand ahead in every front, Murmu said that the government had been running numerous programmes for micro, small and medium category industries to encourage them. She said that the government was bound to the development of the state. This is why it had passed new industrial policy to pave way for fresh capital investment in the state. She also said that the government was trying its best to create new jobs and provide jobs to existing skilled hands within the state.
Startup Jharkhand remained much a buzz word in and out of the pavilion after the Governor said that the government was planning something like Startup Jharkhand exactly the way Startup India was planned. She was also extremely hopeful with results of the efforts the government had been making in the field of improving agriculture, education, health, employment on priority basis. The event was also attended by Resident Commissioner (Jharkhand) in Delhi DK Tiwari, Industries and Mining Secretary Sunil Kumar Barnwal and Industries and Mining Director K Ravi Kumar also among others.
Cultural programme organised at the Hansdhwani Theatre in India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) ground premises where IITF is going on, saw folk dancers of the state performing at their best, one after another. Shankar Nayak and Group (Nagpuri Dance), Garu Munda Group (Mundari Dance), Sakhar Pahan (Karsa Dance), Fagua Bhagat and Group (Oravan Dance), Gulab Singh Munda and Group (Paika Dance), Rasik Baski and Group (Santhali Dance) and Jagarnath Mahto and Group (Chhau Dance) remained much applauded by the audience. The artists ended the programme with a fusion of all the dance forms.