Lucknow Mahotsava 2009 : Events - Schedule

Army tanks and planes may be displayed at the venue of Lucknow Mahotsava. Talks in this regard are on. The schedule for Lucknow festival was released by district magistrate Amit Ghosh on Sunday.

The DM said that chief minister Mayawati has consented to inaugurate the Lucknow Mahotsava on Wednesday. She will also be releasing the Mahotsava magazine `Urmila' during the event. He said that governor BL Joshi will declare the Mahotsava closed on December 5.

The Mahotsava will begin with performance by Prince Dance Group[ India's Got Talent & Boogey Woogey Champs] while Sunidhi Chauhan will sign off the cultural events.

Lucknow Mahotsava committee said that more than 24 types of swings will be installed to draw people. For a change, Lucknow Mahotsava will have information for farmers as well. A separate corner has been planned to give information on advances made in the field of agriculture.

Officials said that `Urmila' will include pictures and write-ups on the upcoming buildings in the city, besides prominent educational institutions. The souvenir is expected to have articles in Hindi and Urdu covering bygone and future faces of Lucknow.

As per the Mahotsava calendar, dancers Nalini-Kamalini will be the attraction on second day. Programmes by MA musical entertainment group, singer KK and dance ballet on Gautam Buddha are also slated for the day.

More attractions in store are film singer Abhijit Bhattacharya on November 30, performance by Wadali Brothers on December 1, live performance by cine singer Shaan on December 2. December 4 will be marked by the traditional Mushaira. The closing ceremony on December 5 will see foot-tapping numbers by singer Sunidhi Chauhan.

Tiger Cub Dies At Lucknow Zoo

City zoo has lost another tiger cub. The Royal Bengal tigress Ipshita had given birth to four cubs, one of them an albino, between November8 and 9. While the albino cub had recovered at the zoo hospital, its another sibling, a normal looking one, died on Sunday morning. "We saw it lying in a corner of the enclosure where it was sheltered with its mother," said zoo director Renu Singh. Earlier, a tiger cub had died on Tuesday.

As a precautionary move, zoo doctors have now moved the second surviving cub to the hospital as well. "Probably Ipshita is not able to take care of its cubs and we do not want to take any chances now", said Singh. Both the surviving cubs will now be hand-reared and fed with the goat's diluted milk. The cub which died on Sunday looked very weak and zoo authorities believe that Ipshita is not in a position to meet the feed-demands of her cubs. "She, though, is a normal adult tigress and is being given calcium and multi vitamins," added the director. Both the surviving cubs are now under 24 hours medical observation. It was after a long gap of 14 years that the zoo got the newborn Royal Bengal tiger cubs but it seems the joyous celebrations went in the air early.

Air We Breathe In Lucknow

Forsake your private vehicles and go for `pool' transport. The drastic increase in vehicular pollution in residential areas of Lucknow is due to substantial increase in vehicles plying on city roads. Going for pool transport could be the contribution of Lucknowites towards saving the environmental quality.


The `assessment of environmental status of Lucknow' report released by Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) does not portend well for health of Lucknowites. "Pollutant concentrations in terms of suspended/respirable particulate matter (SPM and RSPM) in urban atmosphere of Lucknow city has been found to be two to five times higher than national standards", said the study report. The assessment of ambient air quality of city was carried out at 10 locations --- Aliganj, Vikasnagar, Indiranagar, Gomtinagar, Hussainganj, Charbagh, Alambagh, Aminabad, Chowk and Amausi -- during September-October 2009 with respect to SPM, RSPM, SO2 and NO and noise level.


The study has been conducted under the aim to study trends of pollutants over a period of time, to assess day and night time noise to ensure compliance of permissible noise levels and to create a database for future use

Malihabadi Dusseheri mango gets GI registration

Malihabadi Dusseheri mango, the pulpy and rich-flavoured summer fruit grown in the Lucknow region, is the latest to get geographical exclusivity rights after Banarasi saree, Puneri Pagadi, Tirupati laddu and Darjeeling tea secured theirs.


"The mango variety has secured 'Geographical Indication (GI) rights' on September 11. The move would help farmers growing this variety obtain better remunerative prices for their produce," said National Horticulture Board (NHB) managing director Bijay Kumar. The NHB had applied to Chennai-based Geographical Indication Registry in October 2008 to secure exclusivity for the mango variety. The GI is the intellectual property right that restricts others from marketing or processing a product in the same name. Currently, some farmers from other parts of the country are taking advantage of the popularity of this variety and selling their dusseheri mangoes under this name.


Earlier in December last year, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar had asked the NHB to commercialize the world-famous mangoes of the place with the grant of the GI status. The exclusivity rights will enable growers to sell their produce under the Malihabadi brand, which will also help them seek new markets. The Malihabadi Dusseheri mango plant bears fruit in every two years

Lucknow - Largest Passport Office In India

The number of passport seekers in UP is increasing at a steady pace and that makes Regional Passport Office [RPO] Lucknow the single largest passport office in country. Thanks to a surge in demand from smaller towns of Eastern UP , the Lucknow RPO receives maximum number of passport applications. The number of applications is going up by at least 20% each year. The state has three passport offices - Lucknow, Bareilly and Ghaziabad. Together they are receiving more than 5 lakh passport applications in a year with RPO Lucknow having the maximum share.

In this process, RPO Lucknow has already beat the four regional offices of Kerala - Cochin , Mallapuram , Kozhikode and Trivandrum. Kerala among all the states, issues maximum number of passports in a year.The number of applications received by its regional offices in a year is way behind the share of RPO Lucknow.

The RPO Lucknow caters to passport applications from 48 districts of eastern and central UP. These Districts are Allahabad, Ambedkar-Nagar, Auraiya , Azamgarh, Bahraich, Ballia , Balrampur , Banda, Barabanki, Basti, Bhadohi, Chandauli, Chitrakoot, Deoria, Etawah, Faizabad, Farukhabad, Fatehpur, Ghazipur, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Hamirpur,Hardoi, Jalon, Jhansi, Kannauj, Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat, Kaushambhi, Kushinagar, Lakhimpur, Lalitpur, Maharajganj, Mau, Mahoba, Lucknow, Mirzapur, Pratapgarh, Rae Bareli, Sant Kabirnagar, Shravasti, Siddhartnagar, Sitapur, Unnao, Varanasi, Sultanpur, Sonebhadra and Jaunpur.

Traffic At Lucknow

Traffic Light of Lucknow are habitual of getting failed frequently. Many crossings were handleled by the traffic police yesterday as only the yellow lights were blinking , this lead to traffic chaos . Two Points Of Lucknow where even if you want to follow traffic lights you can't are Royal Hotel and Burlington Crossing . These crossings are facing the worse traffic of Lucknow . and if you follow the lights you will be caught up by cops for breaking the traffic norms !! The only place where people tend to follow traffic lights is Hazratganj Crossing.

Good to See the Patch work done in some areas after the Rain especially near Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Polytechnic Crossing. But Still many holes are left hopefully they all will get repaired.

Lucknow Metro - Work In Progress

Lucknow's Dream Project i.e. " Lucknow Metro " is initiated as the Metro Corporation has started conducted surveys accros Lucknow searching for the possibilties and proper route for Lucknow Metro. Sample of Soil are also collected from the Lucknow. Corporation is looking for all the technical aspects , Different locations are indentified ao as where the metro will go underground and where the flyover is needed . Currently Work is in progress at Burlington Crossing , DRM Office Hazratganj and KKC Petrol Pump .

Probable Metro Routes:


South-North Corridor [ 27 Km] :-
Amausi Airport , Krishna Nagar , Singaar Nagar , Alambagh , Charbagh Railway Station, Hussainganj, Vidhan Sabha Marg , Parivartan Chowk , Lucknow University Marg, IT Crossing , MahaNagar, Indira Nagar , Munshi Pulia .



East-West Corridor [ 14 Km] :-
Gomti Nagar , Via ByPass Road , Wazir Hasan Road , Jawahar Bhawan , Shakti Bhawan , Ashok Marg , Aminabad , Rajaji Puram Sector 11 and 12 .