Dance festival gets under way at Mamallapuram
The Hindu
Minister inaugurates Indian Dance Festival in Mamallapuram, highlighting upcoming tourist attractions and free traditional artiste performances.
Minister for Tourism R. Rajendran on Sunday inaugurated the Tourism Department’s Indian Dance Festival at Mamallapuram.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that the coastal town with its amazing rock cut monuments attracted lakhs of tourists every year. Several works including construction of a convention centre at the premises of the TTDC hotel, a Nandavanam park with facilities for the devout and the tourists and an experience centre at shore temple were coming up at Mamallapuram.
Secretary Tourism B. Chandra Mohan said that the festival began way back in 1990 and like every year the programmes by traditional artistes will be held in the evenings for a whole month. Entry is free for the programmes.
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