News from Mysore

Mysore 13.10.2007
Mysore Dasara Begins
Ten day long grand Dasara festiva begins. The cultural activity will enthroll the vistors. Cine artist Hemamalini will perform Bharathanatyam in Palace preises. Singers Sonunigam, Sunidhi chouhan will perform in Yuva Dasara.
The world famous Dasara procession will be on Sunday 20th Oct 07.
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Dasara jumbo elephants arrive in city.
The cultural capital and the heritage city is getting set for its unique, world famous Dasara, the celebrations, which marks the celebration of victory of Truth over evil, reflecting the culture, art and tradition of the state, which begins on Oct 12, with Siddaganga math seer, Shivakumara Swamy ji inaugurating the celebrations atop Chamundi hills, followed by galaxy of cultural programmes from famous artists in front of palace and in various auditoriums of the city, including sports meet, poets meet, wrestling, film fest and others along with Dasara Exhibition, at Doddakere grounds(which goes on till Dec end from Oct 12), besides, royal wodeyar family performing special poojas, culminates on Oct 21, on Vijayadashami, the day on which Goddess Chamundeswari, killed Mahishasura, a day of victory of the King and his subjects, be it in a battle or day-to-day governance, with world famous Jamboo Savaari, where Elephant Balarama carries, 750kg golden hauda which carries, Goddess Chamundeswari, followed by procession, which begins infront of Mysore Palace and ends with Torch light Parade at Bannimantap.
World famous Mysore Dasara which has the history of not less than, 400 years, which was celebrated in Vijaynagar, during the reign of SriKrishnadevaraya, and which was continued by Raja Wodeyar in 1610 in Srirangapatna, later was initiated in Mysore fromthe days of Mummudi Krishna Raja Wodeyar in Mysore, was celebrated with great pomp and glory continuously till 1960, and has seen ups and downs in later years, and Jambusavari was banned due to war in 1962, in 1994 due to Surat Plague, later was celebrated in a simple manner when Dr Rajkumar was kidnapped by Veerappan and even the next year, due to Cauvery problem, Nagappa's kidnap and draught. Later Dasara is going on, without the tradition being harmed.
This year, the Government has decided to celebrate Dasara with great pomp and glory and it has released Rs 80 lakh and Rs 50 lakh will be mobilised through five thousand Dasara gold cards, which are introduced for past four years, this is fifth year, each costing Rs 5000, which provides special entry for two, for all the programmes including visit to all the tourist spots of the city, including, Palace, Zoo and KRS and finally for spectacular Dasara event on Vijayadashami, infront of palace. DC, Chennappa Gowda told Bangalore Mirror that the Dasara expenditure is estimated to cross one and half crores.
District administration has updated the details of Dasara in its website, www.mysoredasara.com in seven languages including German and French, providing the details of the dasara and even of tourist spots for people worldwide.
Gold cards are officially released by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on August 13. And the printing is completed with bar coding to prevent duplication, as there were instances of duplication, previous year. And DC has assured that they would make provisions for online booking of Dasara goldcards, through www.mysoredasara.com, to help tourists from abroad and other places. And the details of the availability will be available through site. They will be available for sale from Sep 10, according to official sources.
Already nine official committees and four additional committees are formed. And the Gajapayana, the journey of elephants including Balarama which carries the 750kg golden hauda has already reached Mysore on Sep 7.
Assistant Director, Tourism department, Nagaraj C S says that the Dept has released a trourist guide, a booklet, “Mysore the heritage destination”, recently. The booklets will be available in information kiosks which are going to be arranged near tourist destinations. And the department has also updated the details in its official website, www.karnatakatourism.org to help tourists.
Tourists who visited to Mysore during Dasara in past four years:
Oct 2003- 2,20,134
Oct 2004- 1,84,507
Oct 2005 - 1,96, 058
Oct 2006 - 2,69,248

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