West Bengal minister Arup Biswas on Friday claimed that the Mamata Banerjee authorities has labored for the revival of ‘jatra’ artwork (conventional folks drama) which was in unhealthy form earlier than 2011, when the Trinamool Congress first got here to energy.

Biswas, who’s the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs and Chairman of Jatra Academy, inaugurated the twenty eighth Jatra Utsav in Kolkata, which can be held for 32 days.

”Before our authorities got here to energy, all the jatra business was in poor form, regardless of being a preferred type of leisure particularly in rural areas for hundreds of years. After 2011 once we got here to energy, the Jatra Utsav was being organised in a grand method,” Biswas mentioned. Under the management of Banerjee, jatra artistes are being given state-sponsored awards and the federal government backing jatra reveals often, he mentioned.

”The whole strategy has helped within the turnaround of the business, making it broad-based on the face of challenges from new modes of leisure. This change occurred after years of neglect by the earlier regime within the pre-2011 interval,” he claimed.

Thirty-four jatras, an eclectic mixture of mythological, social and historic, can be staged in three venues for 32 days.

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