Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Payyanur: The Payyanur unit of Mahila Congree gave a warm reception to Smt Padmaja Venugopal , the chairperson of KTDC. KP Kunhikannan, the gen secretary of KPCC inaugurated the function held at Gandhi Mandiram. Various congress leaders attended the function. At another function conducted by district tourism counicil,Padmaja inaugurated the functioning of the night class for educating the taxi drivers and the folklore survey. She assured that special consideration will be given to improve the tourism opportunities of Malabar. She expressed her regret to see that Parassinkadavu temple is not listed in the tourism map of the country and on the negligence of the authorities towards folk arts like theyyam.