- Abbakka awards presentation, beach festival on Mar 3
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The preparations for Abbakka Utsav – 2019 have been completed and the final touch ups were inspected by the Utsav’s nodal officers, ZP CEO Dr Selvamani R and other officials.
On Mar 2n arounf 3:30 pm in the afternoon, Abbakka Utsav cultural procession and Queen Abbakka’s soldier Chenna Marakala procession will be flagged off by minister U T Khader at Bharat high school grounds. The minister will later preside over the Abbakka Utsav by starting it off on the same day at 5 pm in the evening on the sea shore. As part of the Utsav, various cultural programmes will be conducted from 4:30 pm in the evening.
Beach festival along with Abbakka Utsav
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During the two day Abbakka Utsav, various cultural programmes, seminars and multi-lingual poetry seminars will be held.
Abbakka’s history displayed through colours
As a precursor for the Utsav, since the last two days, 29 artists from the district displayed the history of Abbakka through multiple colours and brush work to the public at Ullal’s aided Moogaveera higher primary school.
Award for Dr Sandhya S Pai, Urmila Ramesh
On the occasion of Abbakka Utsav, seminars and multi-lingual poetry seminars will be held from 8:30 am in the morning on Mar 3rd. In the evening, during the concluding programming at 5 pm, 2018-19 year’s Abbakka awards will be presented.
Minister U T Khader will be presiding over the programme in which minister D K Shivkumar will hand over the awards to the awardees. This year’s 2018-19 Abbakka award will be given to Dr Sandhya S Pai who is the managing editor of ‘Taranga’ (weekly publication) and Urmila Ramesh who is an business woman.