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The Kerala High Court connected Friday directed the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) to dissuade Sabarimala pilgrims from discarding apparel successful the Pampa aft taking bath, arsenic it was polluting the river.
The TDB ought to transportation retired consciousness drives regarding this, including astatine Pampa. Audio messages pertaining to this indispensable beryllium played successful KSRTC buses that ferry pilgrims to the temple. The committee indispensable successful summation person pilgrims that this signifier was not portion of immoderate custom, the tribunal said and reminded that specified practices would pollutethe Pampa river. Most specified apparel were discarded by pilgrims from different States.
The directive follows photographs submitted by the Special Commissioner. Huge quantities of discarded apparel were being collected from the stream banks everyday.
