Press Conference on International Snacks Festival at Begumpet

• Press Conference at HMR Bhavan, Begumpet on 16th Aug 2019

CLIC ( Culture language Indian Connections) in association with HMR( Hyderabad Metro Rail), L&T Metro, Telangana Tourism and the Department of Language & Culture, Govt of Telangana is organising the International Snacks Festival on August 30th, 31st and Sep 1st at four Metro Station and they are Uppal metro, Ameerpet Metro, Hitech City Metro and MGBS Metro Station.

• Participants from more than 10 Indian Communities and 8 International Communities are going to participate in the above festival.
• The Festival will be from 3.00pm till 9 pm daily for all the 3 days.
• There will also be a showcase of Cultural Program from different Communities including International participants.
• The international participants include participants from Ethiopia, Argentina, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, South Korea and China.

 Mr.Burra Venkatesham, Hon Secretary, CLIC has addressed the media and given the entire perspective about the festival. He emphasised that this festival in Metro is going to be organised for the first time in India with the same spirit as the International Sweet festival, being organised by CLIC every year during Sankranti festival. He recalled with his experience that the festival is all about women empowerment and the event is only a reason to create bonding and bonhomie with various communities in one platform. The Platform is also to encourage the homemakers to display and sell their homemade food products. 
Mr NVS Reddy, MD, HMR explained in detail how the metro station can become an epic centre towards promoting Indian Culture and Heritage. He was very happy to extend all support to this festival and said that HMR and L& T Metro will offer the space and all infrastructural support to make the festival a grand success.
 
Mr Abhijit Bhattacharjee and Ms Veena Reddy also spoke during the conference.