Raigarh. District level celebration of Republic Day will be held at Martyr Colonel Viplav Tripathi Stadium. Finance Minister O.P. Choudhary will be the chief guest of the Republic Day celebrations. Full dress rehearsal was conducted before the ceremony. Which started at 9 am.
Collector Karthikeya Goyal played the role of chief guest and hoisted the flag and took the salute of the parade. After the parade inspection, the march past took place. In the end, cultural programs were presented by school children. Senior Superintendent of Police Sadanand Kumar, CEO District Panchayat Jitender Yadav were present on this occasion.
After hoisting the flag in the Republic Day ceremony, there will be salute, national anthem and reading of message from the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Government.
After which the chief guest will inspect the parade. In the ceremony, there will be a march past by Chhattisgarh Armed Forces 6th Battalion, District Police Force, District Women Police Force, Municipal Women and Men Force, NCC Cadet contingents and Scout Guides.
On the initiative of Collector Shri Goyal, the special attraction will be the brass band of school children forming part of the march past in the first function. There will be a special presentation by the band after the march past. Thereafter school children will present cultural programmes. Employees doing excellent work will be rewarded at the function.