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As chief minister Naveen Patnaik has decided to provide pension 50,000 artists, more Sankirtan artists will get monetary help, he added. Later, Sankirtan Mandalis were created in many villages of the state. Now 4,000 artists of different folk arts are getting a pension of Rs 1200 per month.The names of another 1,000 artists have been finalized. A troupe, which performs this spiritual act, is called as Sankirtan Mandali . Though the number of troupes is decreasing with the passage of time, around 20,000 troupes are still functioning in the state," said Dibakar Patra , president of Shree Shree Jagannath Kala Sanskruti Sankirtan Seba Bikas Parishad, an umbrella organization of Sankirtan Mandalis..