Avoiding immersion of Saak in Tawi
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 26: As the auspicious Navratras are nearing their culmination, the Jammu Mayor, Rajinder Sharma today held a meeting with seers and priests of Jammu and sought their cooperation in making devotees aware and asking them to avoid Saak (sprouted barley seeds) immersion in Tawi river.
Sharma asked the seers and priests that the devotees should immerse the Saak in Ranbir canal instead accumulation of it at Tawi river affects the intake capacity at the filtering plant which leads to shortage of water supply in the city.
The Mayor also stressed on avoiding polythene bags during the religious days and informed that Indore became a clean city only because of cooperation from the conscious public and the public in Jammu is also expected to display awareness of such a level to make the city of temples a neat and clean city.
“NSS volunteers will remain stationed at all the four bridges of river Tawi to aware the devotees to avoid Saak immersion in the river and stop polythene bags into the same,” Sharma maintained.
The priests and seers assured that Mayor that they will surely aware the devotees in the greater interest of environment and public welfare.
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