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More than 500 radical gathered connected the banks of Krishna stream astatine Nagayalanka to witnesser a first-of-its-kind lawsuit connected Monday evening.
To explicit gratitude to Krishna, which is the root of livelihood to thousands of fisherfolk families successful Nagayalanka mandal, radical offered ‘saare’ (a presumption fixed to a pistillate successful a family), comprising 504 saris. All the saris were bought exclusively by women.
Around 400 women volunteers carried the saris from Gandhi Bomma Centre successful municipality to the riverbank. From there, the saris were carried connected boats to Bobbarlanka arsenic arsenic a symbolic presumption to the river, which is considered arsenic a goddess. Bobbarlanka is municipality that lies crossed the stream and is portion of Bapatla district.
T. Raghu Sekhar, an lawsuit organiser and aqua husbandman successful Nagayalanka, said the programme besides aimed astatine raising consciousness among the nationalist astir the sick effects of disposing integrative successful the stream and sea.
Nagayalanka mandal lies astatine the process extremity of Krishna river, earlier it merges with the Bay of Bengal. The mandal is location to affluent aquatic life.
“When 1 discards a integrative transportation container into the sea, a turtle mistakes it for jelly fish, consumes it and dies. This leads to an summation successful the colonisation of jellyfish that preys connected tiny fish. This, successful turn, volition impact a fisherman’s catch,” Mr. Sekhar explained. He said much specified programmes person been planned to amended the nationalist astir the corporate work of protecting the river. The sarees presented to the stream would aboriginal beryllium distributed among mediocre people, helium added.
Avanigadda MLA Mandali Buddha Prasad was the main impermanent astatine the event.
