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A curtain-raising occasion devoted to the ninth version of the ‘India Worldwide Dance and Music Pageant’ and the Worldwide Kullu Dussehra Pageant 2023 was collectively organised by the Himachal Pradesh authorities and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Chief Parliamentary Secretary of Tourism, Sunder Singh Thakur, who can be Chairman of the Worldwide Kullu Dussehra Pageant Organizing Committee, launched the teaser and launched a booklet on the event to offer a peek into the grand celebration of the pageant.
Whereas interacting with the media on the event, Thakur knowledgeable them that the Worldwide Kullu Dussehra Pageant, which dates again to the seventeenth century, can be organised from October 24 to October 30 at Kullu this 12 months.
He stated that the celebrations will start with the well-known Lord Raghunath ji’s Rath Yatra, and greater than 300 native deities will take part within the mega occasion. He additional added that the foremost highlights of the pageant would be the Worldwide Carnival on October 25 and the Kullu Carnival Fest on October 30.
The Worldwide Cultural Pageant is a serious attraction of the Worldwide Kullu Dussehra Pageant, through which cultural troupes from over 20 international locations, together with Russia, Israel, Romania, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Panama, Iran, the Maldives, Malaysia, Kenya, South Sudan, Zambia, Ghana, and Ethiopia, have been invited to take part within the Dussehra festivities this 12 months.
He stated, “The state authorities is making efforts to make the pageant a worldwide occasion and added that the “state is recovering from the aftermath of the catastrophe and is now able to welcome the vacationers to Kullu and Manali. He gave credit score for the expedited efforts of restoration and rehabilitation to Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu after the pure calamity. He stated that journey time from Chandigarh to Kullu has been lowered from six hours to 4 hours and added that 13 out of fifteen tunnels had been open to commuters. The flights from Amritsar, Chandigarh, and Delhi to Kullu had been working to facilitate vacationers, stated Thakur.
Anu Ranjan Dy. Director Common, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, detailed the assist being offered by the ICCR and cultural troupes performing within the pageant.Shashi Pal Negi, Assistant Commissioner to Deputy Commissioner Kullu, welcomed the visitors and briefed them in regards to the background of the occasion.
Particular visitors from embassies, Nandita Gupta, Advisor, Authorities of Himachal Pradesh, and Sh Sushil Kumar Singla, Principal Resident Commissioner, had been current on the event.
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