ahmedabad a youth festival which will go on for over a month covering close to 400 academic institutes across the state that is what the state government is planning to do joining hands with society for promotion of indian classical music and culture spic macay amongst youth spic macay founder dr kiran seth was in the city on monday and met commissioner of higher education jayanti ravi on the same matterseth who is a faculty at indian institute of technology new delhi founded spic macay 31 years ago in new delhi and since then it has grown to 300 cities in india and 50 cities abroad conducting close to 2000 events every year the purpose of doing this event is that youth of country is getting detached with the culture and performing arts of our own country this is an effort to bring the best artist of the youth so that they get an opportunity to see the masters as close as possible seth saidseth said the state government is in the process of finalising this problem which will cover cities in various districts we are glad to be part of this the cities that we are planning are bhuj rajkot porbander gondal surat bhavnagar vadodara vallabh vidyanagar anad and ahmedabad spic macay is a volunteer organisation and has had a long association with the city the first event in ahmedabad happened in 1982 and has happened several times here he added jayanti ravi told toi we are in the process of planning this event and are working out how and when this can be conducted a clear picture will be there by the end of this month