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for quality check. Nimit ji is now is also celebrated and in this fair,
earning well from honey and Bee tourists from all over the country
Wax, and is also training farmers, come from far and wide to take
going to different states. Due part. Incidentally, the Minjar Mela
to the hard work of such youth, is also going on at this time. If you
today the country is becoming have gone to visit Himachal, you
such a big honey producer. You can go to Chamba to see this
will be happy to know that the fair. Chamba is so beautiful, that
export of honey from the country folk songs here often speak of it:
has also increased. The country “Chambe Ek Din Ona Kane
started campaigns like National Mahina Raina”
Beekeeping and Honey Mission, That is, those who come to
farmers worked hard, and the Chamba for a day, they stay
sweetness of our honey started back here for a month seeing its
reaching across the world. There beauty.
are still huge possibilities in this Friends, fairs have also been
field. I would like our youth to join of great cultural importance in
these opportunities and take our country. Fairs connect people
advantage of them and realize and hearts. When Kharif crops
new possibilities. ripen after the rains in Himachal
in September, in Shimla, Mandi,
My dear countrymen,
Kullu and Solan, Sairi or Sair is
I have received a letter from
also celebrated. Jagra is also
a listener of ‘Mann ki Baat’,
going to arrive in September
Shriman Ashish Bahl ji from
itself. In Jagra fairs, Bisu songs
Himachal Pradesh. He has
are sung after invoking the deity
mentioned in his letter the 'Minjar
of Mahasu. This awakening of
Mela' of Chamba. Actually, the
Mahasu Devta takes place in
inflorescence of the maize plant
Himachal at Shimla, Kinnaur
is called Minjar. When flowers
bloom on the maize, Minjar Mela

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