The celebrated festival of Bonalu, which represents the distinctive culture of telangana, started last month. A holiday for Bonalu has been proclaimed by the telangana government. The Bonalu holiday in telangana will be commemorated on Monday, July 17, according to the telangana State Portal Calendar for 2023. The day is included in the list of "General Holidays."

It is generally accepted that the celebration was first seen more than 150 years ago as a result of a significant Cholera outbreak. people started presenting Bonalu as a means of appeasing Mahankali since they thought she was to blame for the outbreak. minister Srinivas Yadav stated, "The festival is being celebrated on a grand scale after the formation of telangana state." He was speaking during the golconda Bonalu celebrations last month. He said that this year the government had allocated Rs 15 crore for the festival's operation. In addition, a nationwide holiday has been proclaimed by the government for Telangana's Bonalu festival.

The ap government is prepared to purchase up to 5 lakh metric tonnes of the Bondalu variety (MTU-3626) of paddy from growers this season after discouraging its production for the last six to seven years. This came when the national government approved the purchase.

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