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By: Basant Rath, Nabarangpur:
The preparatory meeting for the celebration of the Annual Tribal Cultural festival Mondei-2011 was held at the Ashok Meheta conference hall of Collectorate under the chairmanship of District Collector, Mr.Sibabrata Dash here. It was decided to bring massal (torches) from Raj Jagannathpur , that is under Nandahandi block. The block level Mondei will kicks off from 17 October to 28 October and the district level festival will be from November 1st to 5th.
The festivals will have cultural programmes consisting of Drama, dance, songs, sports, traditional music, open quiz, drawing, Miss, Mr and Mrs Nabarangpur, recitation of Poem, Tribal healthy baby contest, Photo exhibition, sand arts, and competitions will be held. Besides that Best Journalists from Print and electronics media will also honoured at the function.
Mr. Dash said the aim of Mondei was to spot the hidden talents in the fields of art, culture, sports, and encourage in the participations of different competitions which is being organized for the first time during the festival.
Though in Mondei-2006 and 2010 no one was felicitated with the Mondei sanmman, this year Former Speaker of Loksabha, Rabi Roy, Raghunath Panigrahy, and Purnachandra Bidika,a would be honoured, he added. DIPRO, Bhujang Bhusana Rao, presented the details for the preparation of Mondei. Different committees formed to coordinate the function.
