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Kambala, the accepted buffalo race, volition marque its archetypal quality astatine the Dasara festivities successful Mysuru this year, according to Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru G. Lakshmikanth Reddy.
Though determination was a connection to clasp Kambala during the 2025 Dasara festival successful Mysuru, the lawsuit could not beryllium conducted owed to the deficiency of a suitable venue.
Participating successful a gathering astatine Mysuru Zilla Panchayat connected Saturday, Mr. Reddy said preparations for the festival had begun 3 months successful beforehand this twelvemonth and the Kambala volition beryllium organised arsenic a peculiar attraction during this year’s Dasara festival successful Mysuru.
Three imaginable locations person been identified for the lawsuit — Vijayanagar First Stage, Vijayanagar Fourth Stage, and a tract on the Sathagalli Ring Road successful Mysuru city. “One of these locations volition beryllium selected for the event”, Mr. Reddy said.
A minimum of 7 acres of onshore is required for organising Kambala.
While selecting the venue, factors specified arsenic parking facilities, spectator galleries, accommodation for buffaloes, and abstraction for organisers should beryllium taken into consideration, helium said.
As portion of the Dasara festivities, the Chief Executive Officer of the zilla panchayat volition beryllium appointed arsenic the nodal serviceman for the sub-committee overseeing the Kambala event, helium added.
Among those contiguous astatine the gathering were Mysuru Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Yukesh Kumar, Superintendent of Police Mallikarjun Baladandi, General Secretary of the Karnataka State Kambala Association Vijay Kumar, Bengaluru Kambala Working President Muralidhar Rai and others.
