Jallikattu is schedule to take place in Madurai district’s Avaniapuram on Sunday Feb 05,2017 with over 950 bulls and 1,200 bull-tamers participating in the mega event.
As many as 15 medical teams and 20 ambulances have been deployed to ensure the safety and security of those participating.
Jallikattu festivities resumed in Tamil Nadu after the Supreme Court on February 1 refused stay a new Jallikattu law passed by the state government
Jallikattu, usually held during the harvest festival of Pongal in mid-January, could not be organised in the past three years in view of the ban on the sport.
With the Tamil Nadu government promulgating an ordinance and subsequently getting a Bill passed in the state Assembly allowing Jallikattu, the event is being held in several parts of the state in the past few days.
The government intervention came after a week-long protest largely by youths, including students, in the Marina Beach in Chennai, and elsewhere in the state, including here last month.
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