After a hiatus of three years, the annual Onam Week celebrations will be organised this year on a grand scale from September 6 to 12. A meeting chaired by Tourism Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas here on Saturday decided to organise events in 30 venues in the State capital alone.
An annual feature for long, the conduct of the State-level Onam celebrations was suspended in 2018 owing to the floods that ravaged the State. In 2020 and 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic came in the way of the celebrations. A high-level panel with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan as the chief patron, has been formed for the conduct of the festival.
An executive committee comprising MPs and MLAs from Thiruvananthapuram district as patrons was also formed. Various committees in charge of programme, infrastructure, media and publicity, food festival, trade fair and exhibition, sponsorship, illumination, security, procession and green protocol were also formed.
