Hyderabad’s ‘Numaish’ off to colourful start

Hyderabad: Numaish, Hyderabad’s popular annual trade fair, got off to a colorful start on the New Year’s Day on Sunday.

The 82nd edition of the All India Industrial Exhibition, popularly known as Numaish, was inaugurated by Telangana ministers Harish Rao, Mohammed Mehmood Ali, T. Srinivas Yadav, and Vemula Prashanth Reddy.

They later went around the sprawling Numaish Maidan in the toy train to have a look at stalls set up at one of the world’s oldest annual consumer exhibitions.

As many as 2,400 stalls have been set up on the sprawling Numaish Maidan in Nampally in the heart of the city for the annual 45-day-long exhibition. Every day the exhibition will be open for visitors from 3.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.

The All India Industrial Exhibition Society (AIIES) has allotted stalls to traders and various business organisations from different parts of the country to sell their products at the fair.

The organisers have this year hiked the entry fee to Rs 40 from Rs 30 per head. They said free Wi-Fi will be made available across the grounds. The society has tied up with BSNL to provide the facility for communication and business activity.