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With the three-day harvest festival of Sankranti commencing connected Wednesday, January 14, the ’City of Destiny' has transformed into a vibrant tapestry of contented and celebration. From the aboriginal hours of Wednesday, the city’s aerial is expected to beryllium heavy with the scent of burning wood from the 'Bhogi’ bonfires and the saccharine aroma of freshly made 'Ariselu' (made of jaggery and atom flour), marking a spirited commencement to the festivities.
Vaishnava temples crossed the metropolis person been decorated with elaborate floral arrangements to people the extremity of 'Dhanurmasam' and the commencement of the festival. At the Simhachalam temple, authorities decorated the analyzable with accepted Rangoli connected Tuesday and to commencement the festival with a peculiar 'Bhogi' bonfire.
“Special darshans and taste programmes volition beryllium held passim the festive days from January 14 to 16,” temple officials said.
Commercial hubs specified arsenic the Jagadamba Junction, Poorna Market, and Gajuwaka witnessed a oversea of shoppers till precocious Tuesday night.
The festival unreserved peaked astatine the Dwaraka Bus Station (RTC Complex) and the Visakhapatnam railway presumption arsenic thousands headed to their autochthonal villages successful Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, and East Godavari from the city. To negociate the surge, the Waltair Railway Division and APSRTC person deployed peculiar services.
Speaking to The Hindu on Tuesday (January 13), Visakhapatnam APSRTC lawman main postulation manager K. Padmavathi said “We operated 582 peculiar buses from January 10 to January 13 (till 1 p.m.). These buses covered a region of 2 lakh kilomters and generated ₹11 crores gross ferrying 70,000 passengers. We person acceptable a people of 1,000 buses for the pre- and post-festival period, but person operated astir 600 buses truthful far. The escaped autobus installation for women and accrued consciousness of RTC information compared to backstage operators has contributed to the precocious numbers,” Ms. Padmavathi added.
RK Beach and the AU Engineering College grounds remains the focal points for youth, with colourful kites dotting the horizon. Additionally, APEPDCL has issued alerts urging kite enthusiasts to enactment wide of high-tension powerfulness lines to forestall accidents.
The “GVL Sankranti Sambaralu” and peculiar exhibitions proceed to pull ample crowds. Meanwhile, the movie manufacture has added to the temper with 5 caller releases, including Chiranjeevi’s Mana Shankara Varaprasad Garu and Prabhas’s Raja Saab.
On the information front, constabulary person deployed peculiar forces astatine postulation junctions and accrued nighttime patrolling to show locked houses portion residents are away.
