Sand Art Park to come up in Puri soon

Puri: In a bid to promote sand art and attract more tourists to State, the Odisha Government has earmarked land to set up a permanent ‘Sand Art Park’ at Puri beach.

Culture and Tourism Secretary Mona Sharma, Puri Collector Arvind Agarwal and other officials of Tourism department finalised place near Banki muhan beach after conducting fild visit  to various places.

"The government had planned to set up a permanent sand art park in Puri. We  have done the site selection work. The construction of the project will commence soon"Collector Aravind Agrawal said.

There will be some sand sculptures park so that the tourist can enjoy. This place has been identified by the Collector and international sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik. "We have verified the place today and selected it. Measures will be taken to begin the work at the earliest,"Tourism Secretary Mona Sharma said.

The park will have a workshop centre for the training of the young artists.

Famous sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik was also a part of the site selection team.