Devotees throng Akhanda Godavari to take a holy dip on Sivaratri in Godavari region

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Devotees taking beatified  dip successful  stream  Godavari astatine  Kotilingala Ghat successful  Rajamahendravaram connected  Sunday (February 15).

Devotees taking beatified dip successful stream Godavari astatine Kotilingala Ghat successful Rajamahendravaram connected Sunday (February 15). | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT

Thousands of devotees took a beatified dip successful the stream Godavari with devotional fervour marking Mahasivaratri successful the Godavari portion connected Sunday (February 15), amid immense deployment of constabulary unit and CC camera surveillance and drones. In Akhanda Godavari, which lies betwixt Polavaram and Dowleswaram, the devotees thronged the ghats which are being renovated successful tally up to the Godavari Pushkarams-2027 connected some banks of the river. 

East Godavari District Collector Cherukuri Keerthi and Rajamahendravaram Municipal Corporation Commissioner Rahul Meena person stated that the Sivaratri beatified dip has been allowed connected the lines of Godavari Pushkarams, to measure the preparations for the pushkarams. The initiatives for the absorption of crowd, conveyance routes, autobus services, and the deployment of information personnel, arsenic good arsenic the online monitoring of devotees, were tested connected Sunday. 

The Pushkar Ghat, Kotilingala Ghat and Saraswathi Ghats witnessed the immense assemblage from aboriginal hours of Sunday. Upstream Polavaram irrigation project, devotees crossed the stream Godavari to person darshan of the temples successful Chintoor country connected Sunday. 

The large temples, specified arsenic Kukkuteswara Swamy temple successful Pithapuram, Chaluklya Kumara Rama Bheemeswara Swamy temple successful Samarlakota, Bheemeswara Swamy temple successful Draksharama temple, besides witnessed immense unreserved of devotees successful the Godavari region.

Published - February 15, 2026 05:00 p.m. IST

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