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Acropolis Mall Presents Mango Mania–A Five Day Mango Festival

Ambar Bhattacharya, Takmaa News, Kolkata, 1st Jul 2022:  Acropolis Mall, India’s leading premium mall has played host to a Mango eating com-petition today at its Mango festival christened “Mango Mania” amid much fanfare  and enthusiasm. Mango  Mania is the mango festival organized by Acropolis Mall in association with t2  , Sananda and Friends  FM and social media partner Bhoj Adda. The festival has started  on June 29 and will continue till 3rd July from 12  noon to 9 pm everyday. Acropolis Mall has organized the festival to celebrate the bliss of the season with the  King of fruit Mango.  The aim is to create a  drool worthy experience for  guests with an array of delectable delicacies replete in the taste of mango with much fanfare and fun.
Soumitra Ray, eminent singer and lead vocalist of noted Bangla Band Bhoomi has graced the occasion in presence of Mr. K Vijayan GM , Acropolis Mall.  Children from Universal Smile, a residential NGO  for street children participated in a fun filled mango eating competition.
On the occasion, Mr. K Vijayan, GM, Acropolis Mall , a  Merlin Group of Company  and Soumitra Ray pre-sented educational stationary and essential food items  to the children of Universal Smile on behalf of Merlin I am Kolkata , the csr wing of Merlin Group as well.

The speciality of this year’s mango festival lies in  the participation of self-help group women and farmer interest group in the  mango mania this year, A clutch of self-help group women and farmer interest groups have participated here with a variety of food items ranging from mango squash-mango cakes and mango tea. Brands like Chaiolic and age-old sweet brand Nalin Chandra Das and Sons also have displayed  varieties of mangoes from Malda and sweets with mango as ingredients.  
The Self-Help Groups or SHGs are Julie SHG, Apayan SHG and Dalia SHG. All products of these SHGs  are produced by women from Below poverty  line, who are economically and socially disadvantaged. These SHGs produce all healthy and hygienic products and sell them, thereby, generating sustainable livelihood for themselves. These women also focus on skill development and training that helps them make a sustainable living out of their skills. A farmer interest group named Krishna FIG  catering to the needs of the farmers and sell organic fruits and vegetables to its vendors at the exact price focus on livelihood generation and fresh and organic farming. The mangoes obtained are directly from the farmers.

A plethora of  tangy and delectable dishes were there  ranging from  various flavours of mango squash; mango pickles; mango oil, aam kasundi; mango dahi; mango chocolate; mango cake , mango sandwich, and mango tea. Desserts and sweets  with slices of  mango drew connoisseurs with sweet  tooth.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. K Vijayan, GM.Acropolis Mall , “ We at Acropolis Mall, always put an effort to provide citizens of Kolkata innovative experience that they can cherish. Mango Mania is our annual festival and we are organizing it after a spate of two years. This  year our  motto was to empower women who  live below poverty line here. With that objective , we kept this festival for the Self help group women and farmers group . We feel happy  to  accommodate the SHG group of women from North  24  Pargana  as a part of this event. They make and sell the most the organic and fresh products. I feel very happy that Acropolis with our partners have been able to provide our customers organic and fresh products straight from the mango  orchards. We are also committed to the welfare of children in the field of education and health , that is in line with our corporate philosophy. We hope the children of Universal Smiles have enjoyed the day at our festival here”.

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