Water-logging near Attukal temple poses problems for devotees

Devotees who person for years been offering Pongala connected the ample unfastened country adjacent the Attukal Bhagavathy temple successful the Kerala superior were successful for a rude daze erstwhile they arrived connected Monday, a time earlier the Pongala. The country was waterlogged and muddy, making it hard for devotees to acceptable up their hearths. Most of them were forced to look for amended locations further distant from the temple to acceptable up hearths. But connected Tuesday, arsenic the assemblage of devotees swelled, galore of them chose to acceptable up their hearths connected the fewer adust spots amid the water-logged areas.

As they went up with the Pongala preparations, Thiruvananthapuram Corporation authorities did not origin successful rains, which are uncommon successful these parts during this clip of the year. The unseasonal rains that had deed the superior metropolis caught the Corporation authorities unawares. Even so, the civic assemblage had 3 days to hole the crushed for the festival. But adjacent connected Tuesday morning, the time of the festival, the concern had not changed, arsenic the crushed remained muddy.

“I person been offering Pongala for implicit a decade. Though things were not ever cleanable successful localities distant from the temple premises, this is the archetypal clip I americium seeing the country adjacent the temple successful specified a state. The authorities could person taken immoderate efforts to capable up the water-logged areas with soil truthful that devotees could usage the crushed too,” says Ambika, a devotee from Attingal.