International Snacks Festival at metro stations from Aug 30

Hyderabad: The Telangana Tourism and the Department of Language & Culture in association with Culture language Indian Connections (CLIC), Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL), L&T Metro is organising an International Snacks Festival from August 30 to September 1 at four metro stations in city.

Burra Venkatesham, Secretary, CLIC said that the festival would be held in Uppal metro, Ameerpet metro, Hitech city metro and MGBS metro stations. Participants from more than 10 Indian communities and 8 International communities are going to participate in the above festival. The festival will be from 3pm to till 9pm daily for all the three days.

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 home makers to display and sell their home made food products.

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.

NVS Reddy, MD, HMRL 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 HMRL and L& T Metro will offer the space and all infrastructural support to make the festival a grand success.