Mangalore: Huge Crowd Flood into Panambur as Beach Festival Concludes
Daijiworld Media Network - MM
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje & Ahmed Anwar
Mangalore, Feb 3: It was as if virtually the entire city of Mangalore gathered at Panambur beach to participate in the concluding ceremony of Beach Festival on Sunday, February 3 evening. The whole scene and atmosphere around the area was like the Arabian sea and ocean of people merged together at the scenic Panambur beach.
The sources near Panambur vicinity estimated the crowd was more than two folds than last year, creating traffic chaos.
Earlier, various competitions like skating for school children, sand sculpture contest, finals of throw ball and volleyball and kite flying competitions etc for teams from around Mangalore were held at the beach.
During the concluding ceremony of Beach Festival, District Commissioner (DC) M Maheshwar Rao informed that, a plan for the project of estimated Rs 1.5 crore will be submitted to the state Government for the development of beaches at Someshwar, Tannirbavi, Ullal and Panambur for approval. He expressed hope that the prestigious project would help in attracting large number of tourists from various parts of the country as well as people from abroad
P Tamilvannan, chairman of New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) presided over the function. Beach Festival committee president Sameer Shukla and entrepreneur Premprasad Raheja were present on this occasion.
Zilla Panchayat CEO A M Kunjappa proposed vote of thanks. Journalist Manohar Prasad compered the programme.
Later a musical programme by Raghu Deekshith and troupe Bangalore was held at the beach .
Though the programmes of this year failed to deliver quality output, the Panambur beach has witnessed record number of people on the concluding day of Beach Festival.
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