Six hours of entertainment at just Rs.20. Can you beat that? Impossible. One can’t have fun and frolic any cheaper. So tighten your belts for the annual ‘Numaish’. There are some new and amazing things to bedazzle visitors in the 75 edition of the All India Industrial Exhibition beginning here on January 1.
Locating the stalls and your dear ones is now child’s play. The smartphone in your hand will be your guide. Keeping pace with the emerging technology, the Exhibition Society has designed an ‘Exhibition App’ to help visitors navigate the sprawling grounds. It is also thinking of providing Wi-Fi in the 23-acre ‘Numaish maidan’.
The Society will also be celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of the Industrial Exhibition. President Pranab Mukherjee is expected to inaugurate year-long celebrations. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will inaugurate the exhibition on New Year Day, the first in the Telangana State.
The historyThe Numaish-e-Masnuaat-e-Mulki had its humble beginning in 1938 when the Economic Committee of the Osmania Graduates Association came up with the idea. The 7 Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, inaugurated the exhibition in 1940 at Public Gardens to mark his birthday celebrations. There were just 50 stalls then. The exhibition was shifted to its present venue in 1946 by the then Prime Minister of Hyderabad State Sir Mirza Ismail. Over the years it has grown both in content and coverage assuming an all India stature.
Given the prevailing security situation, the Exhibition Society is not taking any chances on the security front. For the first time, it has installed 8 CCTV cameras of its own. This will be in addition to the door-frame metal detectors, hand-held metal detectors, dog squad and police security.
