{"id":127988,"date":"2023-01-07T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=127988"},"modified":"2023-01-07T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T06:55:41","slug":"indias-first-inclusion-festival-purple-fest-begins-in-goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indias-first-inclusion-festival-purple-fest-begins-in-goa\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s first Inclusion Festival, Purple Fest begins in Goa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>India&#8217;s first Inclusion Festival, Purple Fest begins in Goa: <\/strong>Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister\u00a0Dr Virendra Kumar\u00a0inaugurated\u00a0&#8216;Purple Fest: Celebrating Diversity&#8217;, India&#8217;s first festival of inclusion, in\u00a0Goa\u00a0on 6 January.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-january-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">January 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An overview of the news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It aims to showcase how we can come together to create a welcoming and inclusive world for everyone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purple Fest will feature a variety of exciting live performances, sports events, grand exhibitions, immersive experience zones, accessible movie screenings, and discussions on important topics such as inclusive education, tourism, employment and independent living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the festival, the&nbsp;Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities&nbsp;in association with the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD) has organised a two-day sensitization workshop on&nbsp;January 6 and 7 in Goa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop will be inaugurated by&nbsp;Dr. Virendra Kumar, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment and Chief Minister of Goa,&nbsp;Dr. Pramod Sawant&nbsp;will be present as the&nbsp;Guest of Honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aim Of The Purple Fest 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purple Fest is the&nbsp;first festival of its kind in Goa. It is an inclusive event that aims to highlight how we can work together to make the world a welcoming and inclusive place for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event includes panel discussions, artistic live performances, large displays, immersive experience zones and other activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s first Inclusion Festival, Purple Fest begins in Goa: Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister\u00a0Dr Virendra Kumar\u00a0inaugurated\u00a0&#8216;Purple Fest: Celebrating Diversity&#8217;, India&#8217;s first festival of inclusion, in\u00a0Goa\u00a0on 6 January.\u00a0 January 2023 Current Affairs Quiz An overview of the news It aims to showcase how we can come together to create a welcoming and inclusive world for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":127989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4996],"tags":[96,1251],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-127988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2023","tag-festivals-current-affairs","tag-goa-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127990,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127988\/revisions\/127990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127988"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=127988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}