'Tansen Festival' to promote traditional skills and showcase local products

According to him, the festival will be held from February 19 to 29 at Tundikhel Maidan in Tansen. He said that there will be a pavilion of traditional skills of Palpali Dhaka and Karuva in the festival. There is a program to inform the participants of the conference in Lumbini, including the Nobel laureate, about Palpali Dhaka and Karuva. He said that the participants of the 4th International Laureates and Leaders Summit for Children, Development and Peace to be held on February 28 and 29 in Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha, under the auspices of the Lumbini Provincial Government, were prepared to see the Tansen Festival.

There will be stalls of agricultural products, small and domestic products exhibition, educational materials exhibition, banks and financial institutions, information technology, auto mobile, health, tourism and other indigenous products. "The municipality has invested heavily in agriculture and animal husbandry," said Mayor Shrestha, "We have taken the festival as an opportunity to show that." Deputy head of Tansen Municipality, Pratiksha Gaha Sinjali said that the Tansen Festival was organized this time to demonstrate the visible results. According to him, the festival was taken as an opportunity to promote the work done. "The work has been done but there was no opportunity to show it," she said, "so we will take this as an opportunity and work will be done according to the suggestions of the citizens in the future." The Mela Mahotsav, which was stopped due to Tundikhel upgrading, was organized by the Palpa Industry and Commerce Association last year. Before that, the Palpa Trade Association held a festival in Damakada. Rampur Industry and Commerce Association has been holding a festival in Rampur. Municipal spokesperson Yadavsingh Karki said that various sub-committees have been formed to conduct the

festival. He said that the festival was held to identify employment through tourism and agriculture as well as to promote creation and internal revenue. "The main purpose of the festival is to protect the local language, art, culture, religious values ​​and beliefs," he said, "The municipality has taken the goal of encouraging local technology and identifying foreign technology." More than 300,000 spectators will watch the

festival. The municipality estimates that the turnover will be more than 10 million. A contract has been awarded by calling for tenders to conduct the festival. Rajdhani Rides Nepal Company has got the contract to operate the festival in Tundikhel. Jiwan Gyawali, chief administrative officer of the municipality, said that the festival is going to be organized according to the annual policy and program of the municipality. The municipality estimates that more than 61 lakh revenue will be saved from the

festival. He said that the savings will be spent on building the physical infrastructure of Tansen Nagar as well as necessary works. A general ticket of Rs 70 has been fixed to enter the festival venue. 50 rupees for students and free entry for senior citizens and persons with disabilities. The main slogan is 'Our festival, our festival'. The festival is going to be conducted with the plan to increase the internal revenue by bringing the Tundikhel ground to the purpose. Jeevan Gyawali, the chief administrative officer, said that the company that has taken over the management of the fair has already handed over 6147,000 contractor companies to the municipality. The municipality will earn and spend the money given by various sponsoring organizations to run the festival.