Kites, hot air balloons and drones to fill Hyderabad skies and periphery for Sankranti 2025; rejuvenated lakes to host festival

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The International Kite Festival was organised astatine  Parade Grounds successful  Secunderabad from January 13 to 15, 2025.

The International Kite Festival was organised astatine Parade Grounds successful Secunderabad from January 13 to 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL

Sankranti festivities successful Hyderabad adjacent twelvemonth [2025] would diagnostic grander events arsenic blistery aerial balloons, drones excessively would instrumentality to the metropolis too colourful kites. The lakes successful and astir the city, which person been rejuvenated, whitethorn besides big the festival.

The details were discussed astatine a reappraisal gathering held by Chief Secretary, K. Ramakrishna Rao, astatine the Telangana State Secretariat successful Hyderabad connected Monday (December 22, 2025).

Kite Festival astatine Parade Grounds

The International Kite Festival would beryllium organised astatine the Parade Grounds successful Secunderabad from January 13 to 15, with information from planetary and nationalist kite flyers, said the Tourism Department’s Managing Director, V Kranti. A akin festival was held astatine the venue this year. Thousands of radical came to the venue with friends and family.

Besides, a Hot Air Balloon Festival excessively would beryllium held connected the metropolis outskirts during the aforesaid period. A Drone Festival excessively was planned, with information of drone pilots from crossed the country.

Ministers to sojourn rejuvenated lakes

The Chief Secretary said that the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy wants the festival beryllium organised astatine lakes rejuvenated by Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA), to showcase and item the palmy rejuvenation of these h2o bodies, arsenic per a property note. 

Mr. Rao directed the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), and HYDRAA to delegate 1 dedicated serviceman each to supervise and coordinate the works related to the festival astatine the identified locations. He said that Ministers volition sojourn these rejuvenated lakes from the archetypal week of January to reappraisal the arrangements and measure the preparedness.

A presumption    was made connected  rejuvenated lakes, astatine  a reappraisal  gathering  held by Chief Secretary, K. Ramakrishna Rao, astatine  the Telangana State Secretariat successful  Hyderabad connected  Monday (December 22, 2025).

A presumption was made connected rejuvenated lakes, astatine a reappraisal gathering held by Chief Secretary, K. Ramakrishna Rao, astatine the Telangana State Secretariat successful Hyderabad connected Monday (December 22, 2025). | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT

HYDRAA’s Commissioner, A.V. Ranganath, presented details of the lakes rejuvenated by the agency, highlighting the efforts enactment successful to amended nationalist utility, h2o retention and biology sustainability.

Special Chief Secretary of Roads and Building, Vikas Raj; HMDA Commissioner, Sarfraz Ahmed; GHMC Commissioner, R.V. Karnan; Collectors Harichandana, Narayana Reddy and Manu Choudary;  TSPDCL MD, Musharraf Faruqui and different elder officials attended the meeting.

Published - December 22, 2025 03:08 p.m. IST

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