Lok Mahotsav - Three days folk dance and music festival is held between 4th and 6th January at Gangadhar Mandap.

It is celebrated  to adopt the following objectives: 

1.To project the cultural heritage of Western Orissa, with a view to promoting cultural tourism.

2.To strengthen the bonds between people and their cultural heritage.

3.To explore, reveal and revive the dying performing art forms.

4.To reawaken people to their own culture by developing an awareness of it’s living presence.

5.To disseminate and diffuse knowledge of cultural heritage.

6.To define areas and to devise methods at, individual, institutional level and to define area where the state should extend patronage in the endeavour to strengthen cultural heritage of the State