
Biodiversity festival begins at Yelgoi
The Hindu
20 days festival to conclude at Machanoor
The 22nd Biodiversity festival by the Decccan Development Society (DDS) has started at Yelgoi in Jarasangam mandal of Sangareddy district on Tuesday. The programme was started with offering pooja to the bullock carts.
Bullock carts that were decorated with millets and flowers, accompanied by groups performing on traditional musical instruments, were taken around the village in a procession. Kolatam was also played. The festival would conclude on February 21 at Machanoor.

The Ottiyambakkam panchayat had an harrowingly difficult time keeping people from swimming in the deadly quarry with its protruding rocks under the water. There had been many deaths. And then nature intervened, and the fatal accidents stopped. An invasive, floating weed that is a bane of water sources everywhere, the water hyacinth is not just tolerated in the quarry but welcomed












