Crown Prince inaugurates Mustang festival

September 14, 2002
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Crown Prince Paras inaugurated the Mustang festival 2059 BS at a special function organized in Jomsom Tuesday, Radio Nepal reported.

The Crown Prince also observed the exhibits in different stalls put up to mark the festival aimed at giving a fillip to the country’s tourism industry.

The festival jointly organized under the aegis of the Nepal Tourism Board and the Mustang District Development Committee has put on display different herbs, home products, agro products, off- season fruits and vegetables.

Various recreational programmes such as rock climbing, horse racing, beauty pageant contest, marathon race and food festival will be organized at the festival.

Mustang is developing as a tourism center because of its unique Thakali indigenous culture; eye catching Himalayas and different spots carrying religious importance.

Crown Prince Paras also inaugurated a small-scale hydro-electric project in Lomanhang of Mustang Tuesday. Following the inauguration, the Crown Prince observed the various sections of the project with keen interest.

The project launched by the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation’s Annapurna Conservation project has been completed at the cost of around RS 9,200,000 with the cooperation of local people, the American Himalayan Foundation and the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation.

The project, which generates power from the waters of the Surau stream is of 29 kilowatt capacity and will directly benefit 138 households, it is stated.

The King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation has so far constructed one such project in the Annapurna conservation area and four more in the Manaslu conservation area. It has also been providing various kinds of cooperation for three other small scale hydel projects.

Earlier, upon arrival for the inauguration function, the Crown Prince was welcomed by the Raja of Mustang Jigme Parwal Bista, the Khempo, local political workers, social workers, project director of the Annapurna conservation project Gehendra Gurung, the chief of the upper Mustang area conservation office and heads of the conservation area management committee and women’s groups.

On the occasion, the former chairman of Lomanhang VDC, members of the conservation area management committee, the Raja of Mustang, representative of UNDP Alexandra Tissot, King Mahendra Trust for nature conservation member secretary Arup Rajuariya and trust employees, the chairmen of the women’s groups and local residents were also present.