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Historic Bali Yatra festival was inaugurated in Cuttack

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Cuttack:23/11/18: The historic Bali Yatra festival was inaugurated in Cuttack on the occasion of Kartik Purnima by Finance Minister Shashi Bhusan Behera on Friday.

The festival was inaugurated in the presence of Culture Minister Ashok Panda, collector Arvind Agarwal and MLAs. From this year, the fair will continue for 10 days.

The festival on the two grounds of the fair is likely to witness a footfall of millions of people and hundreds of makeshift stalls would showcase a wide range of products, including ethnic items brought by artisans from across the country.

his year, the festival is being organised on a land spreading over 44 acres and over 1,300 stalls have come up to sell products ranging from household products and electronics to foods and home decoration projects.

Free bus service will be provided to people from Trisulia Square to the fair ground. Multiple entry and exit points have been made at the fair ground to ensure that people can visit the festival freely.

In view of safety and security, 32 platoons of police have been deployed. Plain clothed cops have been deployed to keep vigil on the anti-social elements. Moreover, the fair ground has been brought under CCTV surveillance.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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