BHUBANESWAR: The 18th International Puri Beach Festival would begin from November 23. This was decided at a high-level meeting presided by Tourism and Culture Minister Maheswar Mohanty at the Secretariat here on Tuesday.
The seven-day long festival would
hold important exhibition, food stalls, beach sports, special boat race among
local fishermen, sand art show, Helium Balloon Ride, Kite fly show, Camel Ride
and Horse ride on the Beach, Meena bazaar and merry go-round, Bhagabat Katha
discourse will be organised like last year.
Mohanty said the festival would
attract the domestic and foreign tourists. It is a brand festival of the State for
the past 17 years without change of date, time and venue. Mahodadhi National
Award, Mahodadhi Samman and Mahodadhi Manapatra award will be given to the
important personalities for their contribution to the society, he informed.
Tourism and Culture secretary Ashok
Kumar Tripathy said that Odisha tourism has declared this year as ‘Visit Odisha
Year-2012’ and special publicity will be made for International Puri Beach
Festival-2012 in all publicity materials both by Odisha tourism and India
tourism.
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