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Toe-tapping beats mark `Girijan Utsav'

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Week-long festival organised by Tribal Welfare Department

CELEBRATION TIME: `Dimsa dance' of tribals from Champi village, Araku Valley, during `Girijan Utsav', a tribal festival at Shilparamam in the city on Tuesday. -PHOTO: K. RAMESH BABU

HYDERABAD: The typical and colourful tribal lifestyle enveloped Shilparamam on Tuesday evening with the launch of a first-ever week-long `Girijan Utsav' organised by the Tribal Welfare Department in coordination with its sister agencies. Drum beatings and dancing tribal men and women along with lambadis welcomed Finance Minister K. Rosaiah and Tribal Welfare Minister D.S. Redya Naik, as they reached the venue to declare the festival open. The event, organised by the department with 10 ITDAs, the Tourism Department, Girijan Cooperative Corporation and Trifed, seemed to have advanced the Sankranti with a festive atmosphere taking over the sprawling arts and crafts village. Inaugurating the festival, Mr. Rosaiah lauded its objective of depicting a traditional tribal culture and heritage that is primarily confined to agency areas. It also helped showcase nature's bounty in agency areas, the art forms and dances, medicines besides tourism development. The Ministers went round over 120 stalls depicting the tribal way of life.

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