Medaram Jatara: Vehicles exempted from paying environmental impact fees from February 2 to 29
As per the orders issued by the chief wildlife warden, this would facilitate the free flow of traffic and also help devotees from shelling down extra money to reach Medaram Jatara.
- Telangana
NewsTAP Bureau- Updated On:1 Feb 2024 11:55 AM GMT
HYDERABAD: Minister for Forest for Environment and Endowments Konda Surekha on Thursday announced that all vehicles passing through Eturu Nagaram reserve forest touching Sammakka Sarakka Jatara (Medaram Jatara) from February 2 to 29 would be exempted from paying the environmental impact fee.
As per the orders issued by the chief wildlife warden, this would facilitate the free flow of traffic and also help devotees from shelling down extra money to reach Medaram Jatara. Necessary instructions were passed on to the Mulugu district forest department.
The Forest Department had been collecting a nominal fee from vehicles entering from the Pasra, Tadvai, and Eturu Nagaram areas. The collected amount was put to use to protect the reserve forest and wildlife and also to collect plastic and other waste that could endanger the wildlife.
However, devotees had been requesting the State Government to exempt the vehicles from paying the fee during the ‘Jatara’ considered the largest tribal festival in Asia. The Government requested the devotees to keep the environment free from plastic during the tribal festival.
