Celebrating 300-year-old heritage at the Sarangkheda Chetak Festival 2017
~Explore
the various breed of horses at Nandurbar~
~ MTDC
aims to put Sarangkheda festival on global Map~
~ Placing
Nandurbar as a tourism hotspot ~
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An idyllic weekend getaway in Maharashtra~
Mumbai, 8th December
2017: Maharashtra
Tourism Development Corporation has organised Sarangkheda Chetak Festival 2017 from 3rd December 2017 to 2nd
Jan 2018 to attract domestic and foreign tourists in Nandurbar district. The 31 days of Sarangkheda Chetak
Festival 2017 has observed the
arrival of more than 2500 horses at the major horse carnivals in the State of
Maharashtra. The festival also exhibited horse dance shows and pawara, a tribal dance by the locals of Nandurbar district
which grabbed the attention of the visitors.The festival was graced at the
hands of Shri.Devendra Fadnavis, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra in the
Presence of Shri.Jaykumar Rawal, Hon’ble Minister of Tourism &
(EGS), Government of Maharashtra, Shri.
Nitin Gadre ,(IAS),Principal Secretary ,Tourism & Culture ,Government of
Maharashtra ,Shri.Vijay Waghmare,(IAS) Managing Director,
MTDC , Shri. Aashutosh Rathod, Joint Managing Director, MTDC and
other Stakeholders.
Chetak Festival,
Sarangkheda is an age-old pastoral fair of horses that has been transformed
into a month-long celebration. The festival is held in the attractive rural
localities of Northern Maharashtra on the banks of Tapi River for the
last 300 years. The Maharashtra government is
trying to create awareness about the festival and Nandurbar district to attract
both national as well as worldwide tourists to this emerging holiday
destination.
MTDC and Department of Tourism, Government of Maharashtra
is dedicated to take this festival to a global podium through the development
of infrastructure, advertising and promotion. MTDC has planned to develop a
horse museum for travelers that will inform them about the numerous qualities
of breed, marking, lifespan and color etc. of horses. The Government has sanctioned
Rs 4.98 crores for the museum and the dome shaped horse museum will be constructed
on 6.5 acres land along the Tapi River. The other amenities like art gallery,
exhibition venue, audio-visual room, food stall, shops will be made in the
museum. Through these steps, Department of Tourism, Government
of Maharashtra and MTDC desire to increase the economic and tourist footfall in
Nandurbar district.
Speaking at the Occasion, Shri.Jaykumar Rawal,
Minister of Tourism & (EGS), Government of Maharashtra. “It is
a privilege to promote the rich legacy of horses and the Department of Tourism
& MTDC is optimistic to take this festival on the global platform. Sarangkheda,
a small village with the population of 10,000 citizens organising this festival
from more than 300 years. The festival displayed horses from states like Madhya
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Afghanistan, and Gujarat etc. We constantly endeavour to
create new avenues of tourism in the state and Adventure tourism is a growing
segment that attracts huge number of youngsters. I believe that adventure activities like
horse riding and sport activities at Nandurbar district will be the perfect getaway
at The Chetak Village. We are also developing a horse museum to showcase the
diversity of horse and the breeds to the visitors.”
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