Numaish witnesses huge public rush on last day

Scores of people thronged to Numaish for shopping on the last day of the 79th annual consumer exhibition i.e, on Sunday. Around 40,000 people are learned to have visited the exhibition till 5 pm and the overall count touched to one lakh in a day.

The exhibition which took off on January 1 witnessed over 18 lakh visitors since its inauguration. However, the stall owners faced great loss after the major fire accident at Numaish on January 29. In the view of compensating the loss occurred to the owners, the exhibition society has extended the exhibition to nine days.

The Numaish which was supposed to end on February 15 had been extended to February 24.