The 11-day Dasara celebrations volition statesman successful Shivamogga connected Monday. (Retd.) Lt. Gen. Baggavalli Somashekhar Raju, a autochthonal of Chikkamagaluru district, volition inaugurate the festival by offering prayers astatine Kote Chandika Durga Parameshwari Temple connected the day.
Shivamogga City Corporation has planned a bid of programmes connected each these days, and they see activities that volition impact children, women, farmers, movie enthusiasts, theatre activists, artists, and musicians, among others.
MLA for Shivamogga S.N. Channabasappa connected Saturday briefed the media astir the events planned for the 11 days. Makkala Dasara events, meant for children, volition beryllium inaugurated connected Tuesday, September 23; Ranga Dasara programmes volition statesman connected September 24; Raitha Dasara programmes volition beryllium held connected September 25; The Nagehabba programme volition beryllium held connected the Shivappa Nayaka Palace premises connected September 26; The Karmikara Dasara programme volition beryllium connected September 27; Yoga Dasara and Patrakartara Dasara connected September 28; Musical Night volition beryllium held astatine Allama Prabhu Park connected the evening of September 28, successful which histrion Shivaraj Kumar volition instrumentality part; peculiar competitions volition beryllium held connected September 29 and 30 to prosecute public; a creation programme volition beryllium held connected October 1, and the celebrations volition travel to an extremity with the procession of howdah connected October 2.
The elephants - Sagara, Balanna, and Kunthi - from Sakrebail elephant campy volition instrumentality portion successful the procession. Sagar volition transportation the howdah.
Corporation Commissioner Mayana Gowda and others were contiguous astatine the property conference.
