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Thousands throng Tara Tarini hill shrine

Staff Reporter

BERHAMPUR: More than one and a half lakhs of devotees thronged the Tara Tarini hill shrine of Ganjam district on the last Tuesday of the month of Chaitra.

Four Tuesdays of Chaitra are celebrated as a festival called `Tara Tarini Jatra' at this shrine. Visitors relished the rural fair organised at the foothill. The Tara Tarini Development Board (TTDB) had made arrangements for special buses to carry devotees from foothill to the shrine at the hilltop. Most of the devotees preferred to climb 999 steps as a penance to the deities.

The newly installed ropeway to the hilltop is not active yet.Despite availability of modern transportation many villagers had reached the shrine on bullock carts to have a special picnic. Since Monday evening devotional cultural programmes continued till wee hours to entertain the devotees reaching the spot throughout the night.

The Army Air Defence College, Golabandha, Berhampur municipality and Public Health department had placed their water tankers near the shrine to provide safe drinking water.

Volunteers of the TTDB, Rushikulya Gramya Bank, Temple management and inhabitants of Raipur panchyat were active helping out the devotees.

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