Nagpur, Feb. 15 -- Maharashtra Cultural Affairs Minister Advocate Ashish Shelar on Saturday directed the Revenue department to immediately hand over the site to the Cultural Department for the planned Chitranagari (film city) project at Ramtek.

Speaking while taking stock of Chitranagari project at the collector's office here, he said that this Chitranagari is being created on the initiative of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule and the Cultural department has given an in-principle approval for this project.

"Chitranagari will be built near Khindsi lake in Ramtek. This place is suitable for filming and other purposes and as this place is connected to the forest area, there is a lot of scope for...