Sunday, December 16, 2012



GKSF 6th Edition unfolds at Kannur






The sixth edition of the South Indian Bank Grand Kerala Shopping Festival unfolded at the Jawahar Municipal Ground in Kannur on Saturday. The eventful evening was kicked off with a performance by Mattanur Sankarankutty Marar and team which served as the perfect lead up to the inaugural function. The sixth season of the shopping festival, which was launched in 2007, was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation K C Venugopal. He said that the shopping initiative was bound to bring up the multicultural nature of Kannur up by a few more notches. “It is our responsibility to prioritise the shopping possibilities to the people and I sincerely hope that GKSF paves a path for this development in a major way. This venture also promises to bring in jobs for the youth of our state, he said.