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Saturday 10 September 2011

Neermahal water festival inaugurated

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Agartala, Sep 10, 2011 : The ‘Neermahal Water festival’ at Rajghat in Melaghar was inaugurated on Friday by ICAT Minister Anil Sarkar amidst great enthusiasm.

The ICAT department organizes three day long tourism festival at Neermahal, the water palace of Tripura, in order to promote tourism. Swimming competition, boat race with cultural and folk programmes would be performing in the festivities.

In his inaugural speech Anil Sarkar said that the state government had taken several initiatives to improve tourism infrastructures of the state.

As part of the initiatives, the construction work for 70 bedded new tourist centers had already started, said Sarkar.

MLA Sukumar Barman addressing the gathering said, ‘Neermahal has a unique identity in the world for its enchanting beauty and people of the locality should actively take necessary steps to protect and preserve the beauties of the water palace’.

On Saturday, thousands of spectator gathered in front of Neermahal to enjoy the mega boat race and swimming competition.

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