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Elephant Pongal was celebrated astatine the Theppakadu Elephant Camp successful the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve connected Friday.
Visitors thronged the campy to witnesser and instrumentality portion successful the celebrations which is organised during Pongal each year. All the elephants astatine the campy were fed a peculiar fare which included jaggery, sugarcane and fruits.
The Pongal holidays had witnessed a immense influx of tourists to the tiger reserve arsenic good arsenic to tourer spots crossed the territory connected Thursday and Friday, with ample crowds astatine Doddabetta, Government Botanical Garden and the Rose Garden.
Apart from home and planetary tourists, the elephant Pongal celebrations were besides attended by Nilgiris District Collector, Lakshmi Bhavya Tanneeru, Field Director of MTR, R. Kiruba Shankar and the Nilgiris territory Superintendent of Police, N.S.Nisha.
On Wednesday (January 14), Ms. Tanneeru participated successful a ‘Samathuva Pongal’ organised astatine Thangadu adjacent Udhagamandalam and distributed prizes to the winners of games. In a property release, the Nilgiris territory medication said ‘Samathuva pongal’ events were organised successful each panchayats crossed the Nilgiris based connected the orders of the Tamil Nadu government.
