MC to Celebrate Teej on 11th August

Chandigarh, August 5: – The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh is going to organize one day ‘Teej’ programme on 11^th August, 2019 at Cactus Garden, Ram Darbar, Chandigarh.

This was decided in a meeting of Arts, Culture & Sports Committee, MCC held here today under the chairpersonship of Smt. Sunita Dhawan and attended by other members of the committee namely Smt. Kamla Sharma, Sh. Ravi Kant Sharma, Sh. Shakti Parkash Devshali, Sh. Bharat Kumar and concerned officers of MCC. Sh. Rajesh Kumar, Mayor of Chandigarh has also attended the meeting as special invitee.

The committee discussed and decided that during the Teej mela various Punjabi folk singers including local artists with other singers will perform and village profile/Heritage style collections of Punjab and Haryana will be the main attractions of the Festival. Mehandi Stalls, Phulkari and Painting exhibitions and folk dances and songs will be held during the Festival. Antakshari programme will also be organized during the Teej function in which students will also participate.

This time citizens will have look of traditional festival including Dholi, Madari, Biscope, potter wheel and inflatable characters including mickey mouse, chota bheem, motu-patlu and many more attractions. Magic shows and puppet shows will be showcased throughout the day.

Various programmes will be organized during the Teej including  mehandi stalls, layout of teean, Rangan di varkha, solo and group folk song, teean de geet, kikli, giddha, rajasthani dance, Haryanvi dance, performances by MCC artists, Dholak, Ghara, charkha geet, choreographic group folk dance.