Medaram Jatara Effect: Telangana Kumbh Mela.. Medaram Sammakka, Saralamma Jatara which is the largest tribal fair in Asia has ended. The fair continued from February 21 to 24. About 1.5 crore devotees visit Ammavars. The Koya priests announced that the fair was over as the Thiruguvaram Puja was also completed. However, the surroundings of the fair are stinking with garbage and waste left by devotees. A large amount of waste has accumulated in the vicinity of Medaram, Kannepally, Reddygudem, Chilakalagutta, Kongala Madugu, Oorattam, Narlapur, Stupam, Jampannavagu and Bastand areas.
Plastic free in name..
Officials have announced that this time Medaram fair will be held plastic free. They said that traders have been made aware not to sell in plastic. Devotees are also advised not to bring plastic. But after the end of the fair, plastic bottles, polythene covers, liquor bottles, chickens, goats and other animal wastes are seen everywhere. This waste emits bad smell.
More stench with mud..
In many places, waste water has also accumulated at hand pumps and taps. As garbage is dumped in them, they rot and emit more stench. Garbage was left there at the tents of the devotees and at the workers' camps. Managers are neglecting to remove these.
4 thousand sanitation workers..
The government has appointed 4,000 sanitation workers to remove waste from time to time during the fair. However, the management is not good. Now the panchayat officials have given up. Due to lack of proper planning, even after ten days of the end of the fair, waste is still seen in heaps. The stench is emanating. The people of the villages and the devotees want the authorities to clean the surroundings of Medaram as soon as possible. Otherwise, they are worried that infectious diseases will prevail.
