Mysuru: The district administration has made it compulsory for multiplex owners in the city to offer tender coconut to its movie going customers. With an objective to help coconut growers and farmers who have been facing an acute drought, Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru D Randeep has asked the multiplexes in Mysuru to make available tender coconut water.
Following instructions from the Commissioner of Horticulture Department, the DC has written a letter and urged the Mysuru Chalanachitra Mandiragala Okkuta to allow sale of tender coconut water at all multiplexes and film theatres in the city. A demand to ban sale of aerated beverages and cool drinks in multiplexes was made by MLC M K Pranesh recently in the legislative council.
Following this the Horticulture Department with an intent to help the farmers, issued a note to all Deputy Commissioners in the state to instruct the multiplex and theatre owners to make available tender coconut water. (UNI)