Following a nine day long feast of joy and fervour, the 37th Hunar Haat craft and culinary mela organised by the Ministry of Minority Affairs at NTR Gardens, finally concluded on Saturday.
The event was inaugurated by Union Minister of Culture, Tourism and Development of North Easter Region (DoNER), G.Kishan Reddy on February 25. He was seen accompanied by Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Home Minister Telangana Mohammed Mahmood Ali on the inauguration day.
The craft and culinary mela was primarily organised every year with an aim to provide a platform to the native craftsmen and artisans where they can display and sell their hard earned legerdemain skills besides propagating the art and culture.
It is said that more than 700 artisans and craftsmen from 30 states and Union Territories took part in the feast with their piece of skills made up of clay, wood, iron, brass, marble and glass etc.
Artisans from Assanm, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Ladakh, Jammu-Kashmir, Punjab, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Manipur, Goa, Puducherry, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh and Haryana set their stalls at the event. Nearly 350 stalls of leather bags, wallets, imitating jewelleries, spicy food and savouries, fried chicken and delicious Hyderabadi Biryani have been set at the event that immensely attracted the visitors at the mela.
While every possible measure was seen put on to play for the safety and security of the visitors at Hunar Haat event with over 350 stalls at the venue, no such arrangement was seen seriously taken up at ‘Numaish’ by the organizing society despite the fact that it is a much larger event with a whopping number of 1500 stalls attracting lakhs of visitors every single day.
What makes the Mela different from other such events is the free entry to the visitors of all ages and the safety measures that were arguably missing in other events being organised in the city.