Hyderabad, Dec. 12 -- The All India Industrial Exhibition, Aka, Numaish, has announced a spate of safety measures for the 2020 event to ensure the safety and security of hundreds of visitors who daily visit the grounds. The measures come in the wake of a devastating fire that spread across some parts of the fairgrounds last year resulting in heavy financial losses to the exhibitors as about 200 stalls were burnt down to ashes.

However, it seems the society that runs the fair is missing the forest for the trees, as the much touted safety measures undertaken at the behest Hyderabad High Court to obtain Police and Fire Department clearance as a condition to run the 2020 edition of the 80-year-old Numaish, do not include cutting down upon th...