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HYDERABAD
With the biennial Sammakka-Saralamma Maha Jatara acceptable to statesman successful Medaram connected Wednesday, the accepted Pagididdaraju procession began from Ponugondla colony successful Gangaram mandal of Mahabubabad territory connected Tuesday.
After performing customary rituals, tribal priests from the Penaka clan of the Koya people started escorting the deity Pagididdaraju, the hubby of presiding deity Sammakka, towards Medaram with large ceremonial fervour, and the procession is apt to scope Medaram by Wednesday evening.
Since morning, the colony reverberated with chants arsenic Koya tribals, dressed successful accepted attire, conducted peculiar prayers earlier the deity was taken retired successful a expansive procession towards Medaram, astir 60 km from Ponugondla, successful the SS Tadvai mandal.
Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Danasari Anasuya Seethakka participating successful the rituals astatine Ponugondla colony successful Gangaram mandal of Mahabubabad territory connected Tuesday.
Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Danasari Anasuya Seethakka, who participated successful the rituals and offered peculiar prayers, said that each arrangements had been afloat enactment successful spot for the creaseless and hassle-free behaviour of the Maha Jatara, considered Asia’s biggest tribal congregation. The Jatara is apt to gully astir 3 crore people, chiefly tribals, from antithetic parts of the country.
The Minister successful the beingness of District Collector TS Divakara inaugurated the recently constructed queue lines and sheds for devotees astatine the shrine astatine Medaram.
According to officials, 4,000 RTC buses are already operating successful anticipation of dense pilgrim traffic. Large numbers of devotees are already arriving to connection prayers up of the main festival days.
Drawing inspiration from assemblage absorption strategies utilized astatine large spiritual gatherings similar the Kumbh Mela, experts studied question patterns astatine Medaram and projected way improvements. To guarantee safety, security, and businesslike assemblage management, the Telangana police, nether the TG-QUEST project, deployed aggregate precocious AI-based systems to enactment bandobast operations and nationalist information services.
For the archetypal time, a geo-tag-based missing persons tracking system, modelled connected the Sabarimala system, is being introduced. Children and aged devotees volition beryllium registered astatine counters connected the Pasra and SS Tadvai routes and issued QR-code-enabled geo tags.
“In the lawsuit of separation, the tags tin beryllium scanned to entree registered details, facilitating speedy recognition and reunification. The strategy is being implemented keeping successful presumption that astir 30,000 radical were reported missing during the erstwhile Jatara and subsequently traced,” Mulugu SP Sudhir Ramnath Kekan said.
CM inaugurates renovated shrine complex
On January 19, Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy inaugurated the recently renovated shrine of Sammakka and Saralamma astatine Medaram. The gaddelu of Sammakka, Saralamma, Govinda Raju and Pagididda Raju were constructed astatine a outgo of Rs101 crore, portion the State authorities had sanctioned a full of ₹251 crore for the wide improvement and arrangements.
Roads starring to Medaram person been widened to 4 lanes; queue lines and watchtowers person been upgraded, and different facilities improved. Parking facilities person been expanded considering the accomplishment of ample fig of vehicles.
