While the festival spirit is uplifted by kites, these in the organization of paper kites are not in a position to do nicely this festive season.
Every year Makar Sankranti is celebrated as one particular of the important festivals in Hyderabad and commonly kites are flown every single year. This tends to make this month a fantastic earning period for kite makers in the city. However, this year, their hopes are dampened. Despite the Coronavirus outbreak, the start off of this marked a starting for a lot of and these makers and sellers of colourful kites and manja (threads) in Hyderabad wished the exact same. Even even though the festival, also recognized as patangula panduga has designed an excitement, the festival of kites has not turned out the way the traders wanted, a report by The IE highlighted.
According to the report, kite makers are struggling as the months-extended lockdown that was imposed final year has designed a lot of challenges for these traders. Also, there is lack of adequate modes of inter-state transport and this has led to a shortage of kites in the industry additional taking the costs for these kites up by almost 30 per cent. Citing a kite maker, the report noted that there is nevertheless demand for kites amongst folks as they want to fly kites from their terraces bit paper to make kites is quick in provide. Also, this pushed folks to obtain colourful plastic kites which are very easily out there in markets and along with nylon manja. It is to note that sales of nylon manja have been produced illegal in the city.
From the appears of it, although the festival spirit is uplifted by kites, these in the organization of paper kites are not in a position to do nicely this festive season. What occurs is that bamboo sticks and paper used to make kites did not come from Mumbai and Assam (or other states) for these makers on the back of lockdown-induced transport troubles. The kites are becoming produced all through the year and considering the fact that there was no provide for months, the paper kites in the industry are now facing shortages. Lack of provide has also led to an enhance in costs of these kites.
This coupled with the colourful printed plastic kites have been problematic for these traders, additional lowering their spirits this year. Meanwhile, some makers really feel that the sales are not poor but they are not what they used to be every single year.