Gopalpur beach festival to be held from 24 to 28 December 2012

The famous Gopalpur Beach Festival (www.gopalpurbeachfestival.com) has been scheduled to start from 24th of December 2012. This five-day cultural festival aimed at promoting the serene Gopalpur beach resort is expected to draw large number of tourists to this popular beach town on the outskirts of Berhampur city. Date of the festival has been chosen to coincide with the Christmas festivities to attract more tourists to this beach resort. This time this beach festival is being organised jointly by the Ganjam district Culture Department, Tourism Department, Gopalpur Notified Area Council (NAC) 

 and GDHA. Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahy is the president of the organising committee. According to the organisers like past years this cultural festival would showcase folk art forms from different parts of Ganjam district, other areas of Odisha and outside the State. A handicraft mela would also be part of this beach festival. Details of programmes of this beach festival would be decided at a meeting to be held on November 29, Mr. Panigrahy said. Organisers have suggested that renovation and widening work of Berhampur-Gopalpur road and Karapalli-Gopalpur road should get completed before the beach festival for smooth flow of traffic. Usually these roads get totally jam packed with traffic congestions during the beach festival in past years. Source: The Hindu