Three-day tribal festival begins in Godavari Valley

A three-day Adivasi Rela, a taste festival celebrating the taste practice of the tribes of the Godavari Valley, began present successful Polavaram territory with a welcoming show of Koya tribe’s ‘Kommu Koya’ astatine the Government Junior College crushed successful Rampachodavaram.

The Adivasi Girijana Sangham is organising the festival, attempting to observe the taste and accepted practice of the tribes, who are being displaced from the ancestral villages successful the Godavari Valley to marque mode for the Polavaram irrigation project.

The festival besides aimed astatine giving a telephone to the younger procreation connected the request to sphere the taste and accepted practices, dances and performances of the tribes - Koya, Konda Reddi and Nayakpod - who person been inhibiting the Godavari Valley for generations.

The festival began with a rally of dances and drum beats successful the streets of Rampachodavaram. Scores of tribal elders person joined the rally. The tribal leaders, Panda Siddhartha, Madivi Raviteja, Bondla Varaprasad, B. Kiranam, Puli Santhosh and others addressed the gathering.

The uniqueness of the taste festival is to signifier the performances lone by the tribes of the Polavaram district.