Chennai, May 15 -- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday
inaugurated the 127th annual Ooty Flower show at Udhagamandalam--the
Queen of Hill stations--in the Nilgiris district.
The ten day flower show will continue till May 25 at the famous Botanical
Gardens.
Mr Stalin, along with his Cabinet colleagues, DMK MPs and officials, went
round the flower show.
Organized by the Department of Horticulture and Plantation Crops
in collaboration with the Nilgiris district administration, the event has
been extended from five to ten days this year to accommodate an
expected surge in tourist footfall and to enhance public engagement.
As it coincided with the summer vacation, the flower show would draw
thousands of visitors from across t...