All set for nine-day Dasara festival at Kanaka Durga temple
The Hindu
Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to offer silk robes to the deity on the ‘Mula Nakshatram’ day
Elaborate arrangements have been made for the Dasara Navarathri festival at the Kanaka Durga temple atop Indrakeeladri, beginning Thursday.
On the first day (on October 7) of the festival, the presiding deity will give darshan as ‘Sri Swarna Kavachalankruta Sri Durga Devi’. The devotees can have darshan from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the first day.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.