Reportedly pongal festival, a celebration of nature’s bounty, is just three days away. Meanwhile the festival is also the time when bull tamers are allowed to organise jallikattu, a traditional bull-taming sport. Furthermore a total of 936 fitness certificate applications by bull tamers have been accepted by the public health department on saturday ahead of the harvest festival. The applications were scrutinised from a total of 956 applications.
Accordingly fitness certification for Alanganallur jallikattu participants was held on friday and the selection for Palamedu was held on Saturday. According to report, bull-tamers were checked for their age, weight, and BMI. Meanwhile participants should be between 21 and 45 years of age, they should not weigh less than 55 kgs and their BMI should fall between 19 and 21 and the tamers were also checked to see if they were free of any non-communicable disease like asthma or cardiac problems.
Moreover the jallikattu events will be held between january 15, 16 and 17 at Avaniapuram, Palamedu and Alanganallur in madurai district. According to a report, the madurai district police are making arrangements to live stream the events through the madurai Kavalan app, madurai district police youtube channel and their facebook page. Perhaps the registration of bulls will take place from 9.00 am on monday at Avaniapuram Veterinary Dispensary, government Girls Higher Secondary school in Alanganallur and at government Higher Secondary school in Palamedu. Apparently The jallikattu participants were reportedly asked to visit their banks to sign up for the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) scheme which would provide them with a risk-coverage of upto Rs 2 lakh.
