As a severe water crisis continues to grip Bengaluru, hotels and resorts in the city are planning to host pool parties and rain dances for the parched citizens on the occasion of Holi. The Bengaluru page of BookMyShow features a list of upcoming major Holi parties in the city, while several of them are offering access to the pools accompanied by food, drinks and DJ music with ticket prices starting at just ₹49, Moneycontrol reported.
In Bengaluru's Electronic City, the Meenakshi Resort is offering the "biggest pool access" and rain dance, starting from 11 am to 6 pm on March 24-25, as part of its "Rangila Utsav". Touted to be Bengaluru's biggest Holi party, the ticket prices start at ₹99 on the online platform.
Another one is Hotel Leroy Grand in Yashwanthpur, hosting the "only rooftop open-air pool party" in Bengaluru. The event, named 'Holigram pool party', starts on March 23 and will go on until March 26. The tickets for this event also start from ₹99.
The Lago Palms Resort in Bettadasanapura will be hosting "Desi Holi Vol 08 - Open Air - Pool Holi Festival" from March 23 to 25. The event also offers a "huge rain dance zone" and a pool party, with ticket prices starting at ₹199.
With "free unlimited colours and rain dance" on offer, the Aloft Hotel in the Whitefield area will be organising the “biggest” Holi festival from March 23. The ticket prices for this event start from ₹49.
In Whitefield, another hotel, named Radha Hometel, will hold a pre-Holi party with “free colours and rain dance set up” from March 24-25. Tickets for this event start from ₹99.
Meanwhile, several other hotels and resorts in the city have come up with dry Holi parties this year, with a major focus on food, drinks, colours and music.
This comes at a time when several reverse osmosis (RO) drinking water plants, set up by the civic body in the city, have become inoperative, while other private RO drinking water plants are closed due to unavailability of water, The Hindu reported.
A lot of these RO plants draw water from nearby borewells that have either gone dry or water levels have depleted.
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has set up more than 600 water plants in the city to offer subsidised drinking water to the locals -- starting from 20 litres of water for just ₹5.
On Thursday, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar claimed that “there is no water crisis” in Bengaluru. “As far as Bengaluru goes, there is no water crisis... Around 7,000 borewells have dried up. We have made arrangements for all that. We have taken over tankers. We have identified the water sources. We will see that water is supplied," he said.
(Edited by : Priyanka Deshpande)
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