The government has announced a public holiday in Kathmandu Valley on Thursday on the occasion of Bhoto Jatra of Rato Machhindranath.
Issuing a notice on Wednesday, the Home Ministry said that the government has declared a public holiday in Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur to celebrate the festival tomorrow.
Bhoto Jatra is a part of the Rato Machhendranath chariot festival that concludes after the chariot of the deity is pulled up to Jawalakhel in Lalitpur.
It is an annual cultural cum religious ritual of displaying the black jewel-studded bhoto (vest) believed to be of the then Nagraj, the serpent king.
