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MARGAO
Margao Municipal Council’s ‘Back to the Streets’ carnival festivities will kick off from Saturday with the Big Fat Fatorda Carnival Blast 2019 at the Opinion Poll Square near the Ravindra Bhavan.
While the ‘Back to the Streets’ festivities will be hosted at the Opinion Poll Square in association with the We for Fatorda, the much awaited traditional float parade will be held in the commercial capital as usual on Sunday.
The highlight of the festivities will be the food court offering international cuisine by starred resorts. Introduced last year, around 12 starred resorts are participating in the Carnival festivities this year, with Margao Municipal Chairperson Babita Prabhudesai saying the people of Margao and Fatorda, besides Salcete in general can enjoy the five-star cuisine at reasonable rates.
Addressing the media, the MMC chairperson said this year’s Margao Carnival Committee will be headed by Russel Miranda as president and Anson Fernandes as secretary.
Exuding confidence that the committee headed by Russel will do justice to the job despite the time constraints, Babita said all out efforts will be made to showcase before the people an authentic and festive carnival. She pointed out that while the Opinion Poll Square will play host to the carnival festivities, the traditional carnival folk plays will be staged in all the 25 municipal wards in the next four days.
Russel Miranda pointed out that carnival festivities will be hosted along the Opinion Poll road on all four days, beginning from Saturday and that the five-star cuisine will be an added attraction.
To a question in the wake of a statement made by Tourism Minister Babu Ajgaonkar that there’s a ban on alcohol consumption in public places, Russel said the organisers have applied for excise permission for sale of liquor at the Carnival festivities, exuding confidence of securing the permission.
He said that the Opinion Poll Square road from PDA market to the Ravindra Bhavan will remain closed in the evenings on all four days of the carnival festivities.
