International Kite Festival Gujarat 2010 inaugurated

International Kite Festival 2010 organized by Gujarat government and Tourism Corporation of Gujarat was inaugurated today at Sabarmati River Front in Ahmedabad.

About 7500 students from 100 municipal schools of Ahmedabad performed Yoga and Surya Vandana in the morning.

A crew of Tarak Mehta Na Ooltah Chashma including Dilip Joshi(Jethalal), Daya(Disha Vakani), Dadaji, Tapu and Sundar(Mayur Vakani), Dharmesh(Director), Asit Modi(Producer) were present at the occasion. They performed a kite-flying scene on the stage.

Para Jumping was also performed by a group of para troupers from height of 3,000 ft.

More than 101 foreign kite-fliers performed kite flying on this occasion.

Modi appealed to celebrate the festival of Makar Sankranti safely and with care to prevent injury to human and birds.

“The festival of Makar Sankranti coveys us a message of love towards environment. We have a festival of Sharad Poornima where we worship the Moon, and we have this Makar Sankranti, a day on which we worship the Sun. Our festivals deliver a message of – Love towards nature,” said Modi.