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Kolkata, Aug 2: The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting will launch a Public Information Campaign (PIC) with the help of Press Information Bureau (PIB) and local Panchayat bodies to provide information on various welfare projects in West Bengal.

Deputy Director of PIB P K Bandopadhyay said here yesterday, the organisation would organise a campaign from August four to eight at Belkuri village in Purulia district.

Similar campaigns would be held in several villages of Birbhum, Murshidabad and Jalpaiguri districts in the next four months.

Mr Bandopadhyay said the cost of the entire programme called the''Navodaya Utsav'' would be borne by PIB and it would provide the stalls to the villagers free of cost.

He further added the main purpose of conducting this fair was to involve the deprived and poor villagers in several programmes like education, health missions, rural employment generation schemes and make them aware regarding AIDS and child welfare.

The PIC would be held in association with 30 NGO's across the state, PSU's and banks like NABARD, along with the apex bank RBI, where the banks would look into the financial problems of the people by highlighting rural credit schemes and sanction on-the-spot rural credits or loans.

Mr Bandopadhyay also said as the villagers are unable to to come to the cities for participating in various trade fairs and cultural events, the government has decided to conduct such fairs at their doorsteps.

The fair would contain 25 stalls depicting various welfare schemes and works of women Self Help Groups in rural areas.

The PIB has decided to involve local artisans and youths from the song and drama division, who would spread various messages and ''awareness programmes'', through their 'presentation'.

'Through this, fair, people would have access to Right to Information (RTI) Act', PIB officials added.

UNI

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