ARE GOVERNMENT ORGANISED PUBLIC EVENTS REALLY MEANT FOR THE PUBLIC?
Our local events make sure that the performers and the audience are kept well apart. VVIPs and VIPs occupy the entire space near the stage. Performers hate this, they cannot connect with the audience. The crowds hate this because they cannot communicate their appreciation to the performers.
The VVIPs are busy folk and often do not turn up keeping the front white sofas and seats vacant. It is disheartening to see excellent performances not getting audience response because they are simply too far away.
This my friends has been going on for a long long time. It is surprising that those professional event managers who are paid tons of money to deliver a good show just toe the government line and keep following this old established official political format. We understand that security is an issue when VVIPs are there. That is why we should not mix business with pleasure when it comes to events.
Now Visakha Utsav is around the corner, crores of our tax money will be spent on events again. ARE PUBLIC EVENTS REALLY MEANT FOR THE PUBLIC? Then how come the public are relegated hundreds of meters away from the stage? Will we just be massaging our egos? Who will it benefit? Will we reach our honored tourist guests? Can we say confidently that we have provided real ground level amenities that tourists need? Can we divert a small portion of this huge expense to do real lasting ground work? Guides training, driver training, catalogs, repairs to our heritage structures, cleaning up Araku, repairing signage, putting up information centers, provide toilets, resting areas ... stuff like that.
What do you think about the way these events are arranged? Please see the above and below photographs to see the differences of how it could be.
The VVIPs are busy folk and often do not turn up keeping the front white sofas and seats vacant. It is disheartening to see excellent performances not getting audience response because they are simply too far away.
This my friends has been going on for a long long time. It is surprising that those professional event managers who are paid tons of money to deliver a good show just toe the government line and keep following this old established official political format. We understand that security is an issue when VVIPs are there. That is why we should not mix business with pleasure when it comes to events.
Now Visakha Utsav is around the corner, crores of our tax money will be spent on events again. ARE PUBLIC EVENTS REALLY MEANT FOR THE PUBLIC? Then how come the public are relegated hundreds of meters away from the stage? Will we just be massaging our egos? Who will it benefit? Will we reach our honored tourist guests? Can we say confidently that we have provided real ground level amenities that tourists need? Can we divert a small portion of this huge expense to do real lasting ground work? Guides training, driver training, catalogs, repairs to our heritage structures, cleaning up Araku, repairing signage, putting up information centers, provide toilets, resting areas ... stuff like that.
What do you think about the way these events are arranged? Please see the above and below photographs to see the differences of how it could be.
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