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Kathmandu Thursday May 03, 2001 Baishakh 20, 2058.
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First Rara fest to be observed in Mugu
Post Report
KATHMANDU, May 2 - The Mugu District
Development Committee is organising the First Rara Festival in collaboration with Nepal
Tourism Board early next month to promote the Himalayan district as a tourist destination.
This was announced at a press conference in
the capital, today.
"Let’s go to Rara: Pride of
Nepal" is the theme of the First Rara Festival, 2001, which is sheduled to be held
from June 6th to 8th. The festival aims to draw the attention of tourists to the immense
potentials of the region, including trekking along the culturally and naturally rich
countryside of the remote Himalayas. The festival is also expected to inform the people
about the backwardness and infrastructural deficiency of the district.
A circular released on the occasion says that
the chief objectives of the festival are to introduce Rara lake at national and
international levels and help improve the socio-enconomic standards of the Mugu district,
among others.
Likewise, entertainment fairs, games and
sports, cultural presentations, discussions and seminars are the proposed programmes to be
organised during the festival.
Speakers at the function called the attention
of the goverment and the people concerned toward the upliftment of the remote district
Mugu, and focussed particularly on its transportation problems.
The DDC officials lambasted, in particular,
the government’s apathy toward the construction of the Talcha Airport in Mugu, which
they said is yet to be completed even 22 years after its initiation.
However, an inauguratory test flight is proposed
to be made on the yet-to-be-completed airport on the first day of the festival, but
according to DDC officials, the Civil Aviation Department’s schedule is hardly likely
to be implemented in the context of nothing being done till date to render it compatible
to landing.
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