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HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamy, Spl Gr DyEO Smt Parvati, Kankanabhattar Sri Nanda Kumar Deekshitulu and others were present.
The Chairman who inspected the massive statue along with officials of TTD said that the entire area will be developed with devotee friendly amenities as a tribute to patriarch of Telugu devotional Sangeet, Sri Annamacharya who penned over 32,000 sankeertans. He said the 108 feet statue was installed in 2008 during the regime of late AP CM Sri YS Rajasekhara Reddy when Sri B Karunakar Reddy was the TTD Board Chairman.
He said to revive past glory, TTD has plans to develop landscape and also organise devotional music fetes, cultural programs daily besides building Sri Venkateswara temple in the corridors.
Similarly, TTD is also keen to develop Sri Sowmyanatha Swamy temple at Nandalur after government approval for its merger with TTD.
He said the historical Annamaiah margam will be developed expeditiously as a third ghat road for the sake of both foot walkers and vehicular traffic after approvals from the forest department.
Hyderabad based donor Sri Agarwal handed over this donation to TTD Chairman Sri YV Subba Reddy in Tirumala temple.
The chief motto of this yagam is seeking divine blessings to save the humanity from dreadful viruses and diseases.
Every day the Yagashala rituals will be telecasted live on SVBC between 11am and 12noon during these three days for the sake of global devotees.
The principal of the Peetham Sri Kuppa Siva Subramanya Avadhani is supervising the arrangements.
The TTD Board Chief after inaugurating the PAC speaking to media persons said, the state festival of Sri Sita Rama Kalyanam will be observed in a big way on April 15 to which nearly two lakh devotees are being anticipated. 'CM of AP will take part in this ceremonious fete. TTD is making elaborate arrangements for big fete this year as we have not conducted the celestial marriage in the last two years due to Covid Pandemic. So with the support of local administration, local MLA Sri Meda Mallikarjuna Reddy, ZP Chief Sri Amarnath Reddy, local police.
For the sake of devotees today we have commenced a PAC, a rest house for VIPs stay at a cost if Rs. 4.3cr.
At 108 feet Annamaiah statue in Tallapaka, a temple for Sri Venkateswara Swamy will also be constructed and Dhoopa, Deepa, Naivedyam will be offered. Henceforth everyday Annamaiah Sankeertans will be rendered at Annamaiah Pranganam, he added.
Later the TTD Chairman also released the Vontimitta Brahmotsavam posters.
JEO Sri Veerabrahmam, CVSO Sri Gopinath Jatti, CE Sri Nageswara Rao, SE Electrical Sri Venkateswarulu, VGO Sri Manohar, DyEOs Sri Gunabhushan Reddy, Sri Ramana Prasad, Sri Lakshman Naik, SVETA Director Smt Prasanti and others were also present.
Devotees offered Harati chanting Jai Sri Ram along four Mada streets.
Both the senior and Junior Pontiffs of Tirumala, Spl Gr DyEO Smt Parvati and others were present.
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Sri M. Venkaiah Naidu said, I am delighted to part of India’s mega cultural festival which depicts our glorious culture and tradition, which has evolved over several centuries. Our ancestors developed our art, culture, literature, dance, theatre they fine tuned over centuries and it serves as an immeasurable treasure for the world. The objective of the Government of India’s Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, is to remember and pay tributes to the selfless sacrifices made by freedom fighters. It is our bounded duty to celebrate the lives of great people who made the supreme sacrifice for the liberation of the country from the clutches of the foreign rule, that is Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Thousands of people from different communities, regions, castes participated in the long struggle for India’s independence. It is our duty on this occasion of 75 years to remember and recall their sacrifices and the deeds of those great people, not about one person or region or religion, all those thousands of people who made the sacrifice in their own ways, we should revisit their lives, recall their sacrifices and tell our youngsters this is what they did and we all should follow their path and at the same time we should also preserve our country’s culture, traditions and heritage. This is the twin purpose of our festival, one is Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and another is preserving the Indian culture. We are a country with great civilisation, very old civilisation. Indian civilisation and is surviving because of our principle of Sarve jana sukhino bhavanthu, Vasudevaka kutumbakam, entire universe is one family, this is our tradition, our culture and our thinking. We don’t want to attack any country, don’t want to monopolise, like some countries have tried earlier or trying now. We want the entire world and humanity to live in peace and harmony and happiness, that is the greatness of Indian culture. The Hindu culture is the best and most evolved culture that’s why it could survive despite being invaded for so many years, we heard about Athens, Greek, Roman, Egypt, we heard about there other old civilisations but what is happening to those civilisations and how India despite being invaded for so many years has survived. Thanks to the initiative of people from various walks of lives, especially youngsters, we are making progress in every sector, India is marching forward and I am sure it will become a super power of the world with the efforts of the people that is our wish. We don’t want to become super power to capture the power and rule over others and boss over others, we want everyone to live in peace and harmony, that’s the greatness of this civilisation, this culture. We have 64 arts like music, theatre, dance, literature, painting, this festival is bringing them all together and providing encouragement to those, to show where what we have culturally. It is the duty of our youngsters to remember various cultural values and civilisations of our people and importantly because they give us inspiration. As part of this we should preserve our mother tongue, traditions which are very special. There may be different cultures and languages in this country but what brings us together is Indianness. Let’s not divide our country on the basis of caste, religion, region etc., we should strive hard to protect the integrity of this country and our togetherness. There is talent in every sector and segment of the society, we must recognise, encourage and promote that talent. Before we visit other countries as tourists, first we should the touristic places with in our country. It is the duty of the state and central governments to include the teachings and preaching’s of all great people who worked for the freedom of the country and social reforms of the country.
G. Kishan Reddy, Hon’ble Union Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region, Government of India; said, there were no socio-cultural activities for the last two years due to the pandemic and only recently thanks to the world’s largest vaccination program our Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiated, enabled us to come out to attend an event like Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav. This festival has artists from all the states of India and there are over 500 local artists from Andhra and Telangana as part of this festival. This festival is being dedicated to our tribal traditions and practices. Shri Narendra Modi wanted this colourful cultural program to be part of the 75 years of Indian independence celebrations, Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, which depicts the enormous sacrifice our freedom fighters made for gaining our freedom. This Mahotsav displays culture, dance, music, traditions, food of different sates of India. We are also celebrating the fond memories of Ghantasala, freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju, SP Balasubramaniam, Sirivenalla Sitarama Sastry at this festival, while paying tributes to the martyrs who laid down their life for the country. There will be several entertaining cultural programs and I request Hyderabadi’s to visit the festival venue during the three days.
Haryana Governor Shri Bandaru Dattatreya said, the Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav is a reflection of our country’s diverse cultural traditions, despite the diversity we are all Indians.
Earlier in the day, Smt. Tamilisai Soundararajan, Hon’ble Governor of Telangana; inaugurated the craft and food exhibition. Prior to Hyderabad, the Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav 2022, was organised at Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh on March 26th and 27th, 2022, later at Warangal in Telangana on March 29th and 30th, 2022.
Over a thousand artists from different parts of the country and different traditions including Classical, Folk and Popular culture traditions, are performing in this unique celebration of India’s culture, craft, cuisine. Padma Shri Ananda Shankar Jayant, presented a Classical Dance Performance followed by Shankar Mahadevan-Ehsaan-Loy’ s music performance; today.
The Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav is the flagship festival of the Ministry of Culture, that aims to preserve, promote, and popularise Indian Heritage. The RSM has been organised since 2015 with the active participation of Seven Zonal Culture Centres (ZCCs) and has been playing a pivotal role in taking India’s vibrant cultural diversity out to the masses instead of confining it to auditoria and galleries. RSM has been instrumental in showcasing the 3Cs of our heritage - Culture, Craft and Cuisine of one state in other state reinforcing the cherished goal of “Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat”. At the same time, the folk and tribal art, dance, music, cuisines & culture that are being demonstrated provide an effective platform for the artists and artisans to support their livelihood.
The program details for the next two days are as follows:
2nd April, 2022
5:30 PM - 6:30 Inaugural Programme
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Performances by Local Artists
7:00 PM - 7:45 PM Choreographed Folk Performances
8:00 PM - 8:45 PM Classical Music Performance ‘’Taal India’’ by Banyan Tree
9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Music Performance by S. Thaman
3rd April, 2022
5:30 PM - 6:30 Inaugural Programme
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Performances by Local Artists
7:00 PM - 7:45 PM Choreographed Folk Performances
8:00 PM - 8:45 PM Classical Dance Performance by Smt. Jayaprabha Menon
9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Music Performance by Padma Shri Dr. L. Subramaniam & Padma Shri Kavitha Krishnamurthy
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