The annual Dasara exhibition, which is a major attraction of the Dasara festivities, will be thrown open to the public about 15 days before the inauguration of Dasara festival on September 26 this year.
Speaking to reporters after the ceremonial welcome of the Dasara elephants at the Mysuru palace on Wednesday, Minister for Cooperation S.T. Somashekar, who is also the Minister in charge of Mysuru district, said Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has issued instructions to the officials at the recent Dasara High Power Committee meeting to ensure that the Dasara exhibition is opened 15 days before the start of the festival as usually most of the stalls are not ready by the time the exhibition is inaugurated.
When the Dasara exhibition is inaugurated on the first day of the festival every year, empty stalls have been greeting the visitors. Though the officials and elected representatives have been assuring the public that they will ensure that the stalls are up and running by the time the exhibition is inaugurated, little had changed. However, the newly appointed Chairperson of Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) Srinivas Gowda has begun making the necessary preparation to ensure that the stalls are ready 15 days in advance this year, said Mr. Somashekar.
