Excelsior Correspondent
BHADERWAH, Mar 13: The annual Bhaderwah Snow Festival concluded today at Government Higher Secondary School (Boys), here.
The festival was organised by Bhaderwah Development Authority (BDA) in collaboration with Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Department and District Administration, Doda.
DDC Doda, Farooq Ahmed Khan, was the chief guest on the occasion who said that efforts to explore and develop tourism and adventure/winter sports potential of the region will continue to attract more and more tourists to uplift and strengthen the tourism infrastructure of the district.
School children drawn from various schools of the district participated and presented a colourful cultural programme thereby depicting the rich cultural heritage of the region.
Various adventure sports activities like snow skiing, paragliding, snow biking and tug-of-war besides other adventure sports activities were also conducted in the festival.
Later, DDC Doda distributed mementos amongst the participants of the festival.
Additional DDC Doda, G N Balwan, Chief Executive Officer, Bhaderwah Development Authority, Kalyan Singh Parihar, Assistant Director Tourism, Batote, Tariq Hussain and other officials were also present.