Hyderabad
The city police commissioner has issued orders to close the All India Industrial Exhibition (Numaish) at the Nampally Exhibition Grounds. Representatives of the Exhibition 'Society announced through mics on the ground that the exhibition was being closed in accordance with these orders. That means there is no Numaish for two years on a trot.
Permission was not granted to hold an exhibition due to the Pandemic in 2020. With this, they were unable to have Numaish last year. This year, with the approval of all government departments, the exhibition opened on January 1 with 1500 stalls. In the wake of Omicron, the government has issued a G.O. banning public meetings and rallies.
According to the G.O, the society's representatives postponed the exhibition till the 10th of this month after the police ordered that the exhibition should not be held on the second day of the exhibition. Meanwhile, city police commissioner CV Anand issued notices to Exhibition Society Vice-president Dr. Prabha Shankar and Secretary Aditya Marg to immediately stop the exhibition as a precautionary measure in the wake of the Omicron cases surge. It was advertised through mics that the exhibition would be suspended as per these orders.