Dolakha festival has started from Tuesday in the headquarter Charikot. The festival has started under the initiative of Dolakha Industry and Commerce Association to make the economic activity sustainable and to promote the tourism sector and local products.

The festival, which will be organized till February 18th, will have agricultural and domestic handicrafts exhibition, industrial and commercial exhibition . In addition, there will be ethnic cultural glimpses, children's garden, tableau and rally, folk dance competition, food festival. Indra Bahadur Shrestha, chairman of Dolakha Industry and Commerce Association, the organizer of

, said that there is also a program to promote the tourism sector in Mahotwas. There are more than one hundred stalls in the festival. To make the festival a success, a rally of tableaus of different castes was organized in Charikot Bazar.

The festival was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Bagmati Province, Bahadur Singh Lama Tamang.