Bhaktapur, June 15:A 51-member auspicious birthday celebration civic committee has been formed under the chairmanship of Bhaktapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry chairman Krishna Prasad Tamrakar to mark the 30th auspicious birthday of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in Bhaktapur for three days.

Yuvak Rajbhandari, Ratna Hari Gautam and Rabindra Kharbuja are the vice chairmen of the committee while Uttam Jha is the secretary.

The committee also includes senior doctors, social workers, intellectuals, professors and industrialists and businessmen and journalists.

Lawmakers Narayan Man Bijukchhe and Lekh Nath Nyoupane, Bhaktapur DDC president Govinda Duwal, mayors Prem Suwal and Madan Krishna Shrestha, CDO Dhrub Raj Wagle and superintendent of police Narayan Kumar Acharya are advisors to the committee.

The first meeting of the auspicious birthday civic celebration committee held under its chairman Tamrakar has decided to mark the auspicious birthday of HRH the Crown Prince with a variety of programmes on June 26, 27 and 28.

The programmes slated to be held on June 26 include tree plantation and laying out of a garden at the premises of Bhaktapur Industrial Estate, sanitation work at the estate and a free health camp for labourers while programmes for June 27 include worship at major shrines in the district, a rally and fruit distribution to patients at Bhaktapur Hospital.

The programmes for June 28 include tree plantation at Subarneswar area, Katunje and Nil Barahi Thimi, and a women’s table tennis tournament.

Festive illumination will be carried out at the historic five storey temple (Nyatapole) in the evenings.