12-day Krishna Pushkaralu festival commences tomorrow About 3.5 crore people are expected to take a holy dip in river Krishna in three districts of Andhra Pradesh.
Vijayawada: Krishna Pushkaralu, the 12-day festival that comes once in every 12 years, begins on Friday with over three crore devotees expected to take a holy dip in the river across Andhra Pradesh.
The unique feature of Krishna Pushkaralu this year is that its technology-driven.
Having successfully completed the interlinking of rivers Godavari and Krishna through the Pattisam Lift Irrigation Scheme, the state government now wants to embark on the next step to link river Krishna with Penna.
"We have interlinked Godavari and Krishna and now we have to extend it to Penna and later to Somasila. The ultimate objective is to make AP drought-free by the next Pushkaralu," Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has said. In all, 170 bathing ghats have been readied in Kurnool, Guntur and Krishna districts for the Pushkaralu.
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