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‘Karthigai Deepam Festival’: Gold Coin prize for devotees with cloth bags!
Posted on: 28/Nov/2014 2:32:25 PM
Thiruvannamalai District Collector, Mr. A. Gnanasekharan, has announced that the devotees who carry environment-friendly bags made of cloth, jute, etc will be given prizes of gold and silver coins through a lucky-draw.
The district administration of Thiruvannamalai & the state government of Tamil Nadu have taken joint measures to reduce usage of plastic bags and recommend using environment-friendly bags made of cloth & jute.
Devotees coming to the festival on 5th December carrying cloth/jute bags will be eligible for prizes of gold and silver coins based on a lucky-draw.
5 special centres have been formed to check this at Grace Hospital (Thiruvannamalai-Tindivanam Road), Chengam Road Sandhaimedu Bus stop, Kuberalingam located at the bottom of the mountain, and Anna entrance gate at Vellore Road.
Devotees can show their cloth & jute bags and get it sealed and get the numbered ticket.
The tickets from the 5 centres will be collected every hour and computer-based lucky draw will be conducted. The winners will get 10gm silver coins.
There will be a computer-based lucky draw for the tickets collected from the 5 centres for every 8 hours. One number will be selected and the winner will get a 2 gm gold coin.
Lucky draws will be conducted from 6.00 am on 5th December till 6.00 am on 6th December.
24 silver coins and 3 gold coins are to be won.
Contact: 8056042334, 8056099140, 04175-233118
