India-Nepal Folk Crafts Festival kicks off in Kathmandu

India-Nepal Folk Crafts Festival kicks off in Kathmandu The five day India-Nepal Folk Crafts Festival (INCF-2016) begins in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 19, 2016 to promote cultural exchanges between the two countries. Aim: To promote crafts based bilateral relations and enhance cultural exchanges between the artisans of India and Nepal. The INCF-2016 will highlights more than

70 theme based pavilion with focus on folk crafts of India and Nepal, cultural events, live demonstration by crafts-persons and design workshops to be conducted as a part of this festival.

iv. The festival is sponsored by Ministry of Textiles, Government of India and is organised by South Asia Foundation and SAF-Nepal in association with Council of Handicrafts Development India-Nepal Folk Crafts FestivalCorporations (COHANDS) and supported by Embassy of India, Kathmandu, Embassy of Nepal, New Delhi, B P Koirala India-Nepal Foundation (BPKF), Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal (FHAN) and Nepal Tourism Board.

Nepal :

♦ Capital: Kathmandu

♦ Currency: Nepalese rupee

♦ Prime minister: Pushpa Kamal Dahal