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Arrangements finalized for "Border Festival" 4/4/2015 10:37:00 PM Early Times Report Kathua, Apr 4 : District Administration today has finalized the arrangements for first Border Festival in a meeting convened today. The border festival aimed at promoting International Border as a tourist attraction and creating facilitates for local and national tourists is being organized on April 9, 2015 at Hiranagar. District Development Commissioner, Kathua, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary chaired the meeting to finalize arrangements for celebration of 1st Border Festival, which will be celebrated biannually on rotation in various border areas. The 2-day festival will have a series of recreational activities, cultural programmes and special emphasis will also be laid on information, education and communication regarding various Government schemes for border residents in particular. More than 100 stalls by departments, organisations, projects, industries and tourism associations will be established during the festival. A one-day border trip package is also being organised by administration for tourists. The festival will showcase Dogra cultural heritage, art and history. The DDC informed that the festival is aimed at boosting the tourism sector in border area and linking youth with a public driven tourism industry. More than 15 Border Tourism Huts are being taken up with public partnership in current year for attracting tourists to feel and share the atmosphere there. He called upon officers of line departments to put in their best efforts for making the event successful and lay firm foundation for showcasing border belt as a tourist destination and support livelihood of border residents. He further called for a greater public participation in the event and engaging public as key stakeholder in such initiatives for long term sustainability and visible results. SSP Kathua Neeva Jain, Addl DC Dr Mushtaq Ahmed, Addl SP Nasir Ahmed, CPO Ram Rattan, SDM Hiranagar Sohan Lal and ACD Tilak Raj were also attended the meeting.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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