CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the official machinery to see that the people get all the amenities to celebrate Dasara in a big way. The Dasara sarees are also ready for distribution.
There is a chance that he might attend the Bathukamma festival at Tankbund on a concluding day to greet the procession. As usual, Kavitha will lead the festivities here in Telangana.
The nine-day Bathukamma festival will be celebrated from 25th of this month to 3rd of next month. The main celebrations will be held on 3rd October which will be celebrated as Saddula Bathukamma.
Presiding over a coordination meeting on organizing Bathukamma Celebrations at BRKR Bhavan today, Chief Secretary said that as a large number of people will be participating in the festival, elaborate arrangements should be made in a befitting manner.
The officials have been directed to illuminate important traffic islands and buildings during the festival. Improvement of roads, barricading at immersion points, provision of uninterrupted power supply, organising cultural programmes, arrangement of swimmers near Hussain Sagar and at all the immersion points should also be put in place. All the metro pillars and inside metro trains should be decorated depicting the Bathukamma festival. Wide publicity should be given in social media about the festival.
For the Saddula Bathukamma which is to be held on the 3rd of October, Chief Secretary asked the officials to ensure provision of logistics like the arrangement of small cranes for immersion of Bathukammas, illumination across the banks of Hussain Sagar, police security, traffic control and regulation, temporary toilets, distribution of buttermilk sachets, arrangements of first aid facility, deployment of fire extinguishers etc.
Saddula Bathukamma should also be organised in all the district headquarters, Chief Secretary added.
Advisor to Govt. (Culture & Tourism) K.V.Ramana Chary, DGP M. Mahender Reddy, Spl. Chief Secretary LET&F Smt. I Rani Kumudini, Special Chief Secretary MA&UD Arvind Kumar, Spl.Chief Secretary Energy Sunil Sharma, Spl.Chief Secretary Finance K.Ramakrishna Rao, Principal Secretary Home Ravi Gupta, Commissioner, Secretary PR&RD Sandeep Kumar Sultania, GHMC Commissioner Lokesh Kumar, Hyderabad Police Commissioner C.V.Anand, Commissioner Cyberabad Stephen Ravindra, VC &MD, HMW&SB M.Dana Kishore, Secretary HM&FW Rizvi, Endowments Commissioner Anil Kumar, Spl.Secretary WCD&SC Smt. D.Divya, Director of School Education
