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Pulikali teams successful Thrissur person urged the Union authorities to instantly merchandise the fiscal assistance announced for past year’s festival, informing of protestation if the hold continues.
At a associated gathering present connected Sunday, representatives of assorted Pulikali groups said that contempt submitting each required documents arsenic directed by the District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC), nary effect was fixed for months. They called for the urgent involution of Union Minister and Thrissur MP Suresh Gopi to expedite the process.
The teams said they had learned done media reports, connected the eve of past year’s festival, that the Union Tourism Ministry had announced an assistance of ₹3 lakh each for Pulikali troupes. In addition, ₹1 lakh each had been provided implicit the past 2 years from South Zone Cultural Centre.
While the assistance from the South Zone Cultural Centre has been disbursed, the Centre’s announced assistance is yet to scope the teams, they said. Many troupes are facing terrible fiscal crisis, they added.
The gathering decided to taxable memorandums to Mr. Gopi and the District Collector. If a favourable determination is not taken, the teams said they would motorboat protestation programmes, opening with an ‘Ottapuli’ objection successful beforehand of the DTPC bureau successful aboriginal July.
Representatives from assorted Pulikali groups, including those from Seetharam Mill Desam, Ayyanthole, Shankarankulangara, Chakkamukku, Kuttankulangara, Patturaikkal, Viyyur, Kanattukara, Olarikkara and Veliyannur, attended the meeting.
