Gadkari to inaugurate 23rd ‘Hunar Haat’

at 3:07 pm
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Nitin Gadkari

New Delhi (NVI): Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate the 23rd “Hunar Haat”, a platform for products of indigenous master artisans in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur tomorrow via video conferencing.

According to an official statement, the Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Ababs Naqvi, Khadi and Village Industries Commission Chairman Vinay Kumar Saxena and Sidharth Nath Singh, UP Cabinet Minister for Khadi and Villages Industries and MSME will be present as the chief guests in the event.

Naqvi said indigenous products of master artisans are a major attraction at “Hunar Haat” in Rampur being organised from December 18 to 27.

The people will also enjoy traditional delicacies from almost every corner of the country at this Hunar Haat. Besides, different cultural programmes on the theme of “Jaan Bhi, Jahaan Bhi”, to be presented every day by renowned artists, he was quoted as saying in the statement.

This “Hunar Haat” is an occasion to live the feeling of communal harmony and the country’s ‘unity in diversity’, Naqvi said, adding that, “Kavi Sammelan will be organised on the theme of Aatmanirbhar Bharat on 27 December, 2020.”

The minister further said that master artisans and craftsmen from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Nagaland, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Goa and other places of the country have brought their indigenous products to Hunar Haat, which are made with wood, brass, bamboo, glass, cloth, paper, clay etc.

-RJV