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