‘Kumbh, an ancient mass vaccination method’

Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar, known as the architect of the country’s initiative of supercomputing that has developed Param series of supercomputers, has complimented the ‘Kumbh Sandesh Yatra’ undertaken by GCOT, a not-for-profit organisation founded by the alumni of Osmania University, for spreading the message about the significance of Kumbh Mela. The yatra led by founder of Gramodaya Chamber of Commerce and Technology D. Vasanth Kumar, a native of Zaheerabad, has reached Pune on March 8 after it was flagged off at Hyderabad on February 19 by Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavitha. “The yatra has so far completed a distance of about 3,700 km after covering places such as Tirupati, Chennai, Puducherry, Tiruchi, Rameswaram, Madurai, Kanyakumari, Bengaluru and Hubballi, it has reached Pune”, Mr. Vasanth said speaking over phone from Pune on Monday.