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Handloom expo ‘Hathkargha Mela’ (State Handloom Expo) 2026, organised by the Andhra Pradesh Shilparamam Arts, Crafts, and Cultural Society, Vijayawada, is seeing a visitant surge successful presumption of the wedding play that started mid-February, astatine Shilparamam connected Tiruchanur Road.
As Tirupati’s Shilparamam besides has a wedding-cum-convention hallway abutting its premises, the lawsuit turned retired to beryllium an effectual assemblage puller. This apart, the footfall is besides precocious due to the fact that of the devotees visiting the Tiruchanur Sri Padmavati Ammavari temple.
The event, which was inaugurated connected February 22 by A.P. Yadava Corporation Chairman G. Narasimha Yadav, A.P. State Greenery and Beautification Corporation chairperson M. Sugunamma and A.P. Nayi Brahmin Corporation president Rudrakoti Sadasiva, has been registering dependable inflow of visitors.
Around 64 artisan groups are from the Telugu States, and the remaining hail from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Jharkhand.
Customers, particularly women, are making a beeline to the stalls selling the taste Kashmiri, Bagalpuri, Pollachi, and Venkatagiri saris. The woody artifact makers from Settigunta, ‘Thella Jilledu’ Ganesh idol makers, imitation jewellery sets from Visakhapatnam are besides making bully concern astatine the expo. The expo ends connected March 7.
Meanwhile, adjacent though the Union government-sponsored exhibitions were conducted crossed Tirupati, Guntur, Visakhapatnam, and Kakinada successful 2025, the Tirupati lawsuit unsocial bagged an awesome footfall of astir 2 lakh visitors past year.
