Cold weather, fog enhance Adilabad's scenic beauty

Scenic beauty at Nirmal ghats in the Adilabad district.

Low temperatures being recorded during the winter has brought additional beauty to the Adilabad district. Often, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has described Adilabad district as Kashmir of the Telangana state.

Chilling temperatures being recorded this season in Adilabad are attracting nature lovers and tourists to the Jannaram, Utnoor, Kerameri areas and also Nirmal ghat, Kupti ghats in the Adilabad district.

These places are tourist destinations located in the forests with the low temperatures for the last few years and forest hills covered with fog is attracting visitors from all over.

The temperatures dipped to 11.4 C in Adilabad and it may further dip in the coming days. Lowest temperature is 3 C recorded during the winter season last year in the district and it was the lowest temperature recorded in the Telangana state.

Nature lovers loved feeling of the fog and chilly breeze on their skin which they experienced in the morning hours. The Sahyadri hill attracts nature lovers from Nirmal ghats, Kupti ghats and Kerameri ghats in the district.

Lowest temperatures in the state are being recorded in the forests areas of Kerameri mandal every year. The lush green volleys in the Sahyadri hills ranges during this winter  is a scenic beauty for nature lovers.

Gradually, the amenities like good accommodation are on the increase at Jannaram, Kadam, Nirmal and Adilabad as the good roads invite people to visit the places.

A French travel blogger Stephanie Langlet who recently visited the Adilabad district to cover the Gussadi festival said, ‘she was impressed greatly by the spectacular beauty of the Adilabad district. She said, the conducive weather makes it ideal to explore the district.

Cops vigil on BT road laying works at Jodeghat

Cops are more vigilant than the engineers of Tribal Welfare engineering department on BT road laying works taken up at a cost of Rs 3 crore which are under progress for 22 km from Hatti to Jodeghat in Kerameri mandal and checking regularly the road laying works.

The police suspects that Maoists may hide or plant dynamites or detonators in the new road or repair works taking the advantage of road laying works and to be triggered targeting the political leaders or others in future.

Cops are checking the road laying works with bomb disposal squads and keeping the vigil on the laborers involved in the road works to avoid untoward incidents in future.

The 22 km road is being laid in the dense forest area which was once strong hold of Maoists.

Cops are not leaving any chance to Naxalites since the Maoists issued an ultimatums to the ruling government in the wake of Warangal encounter in which two Maoists were killed.

It is said that Central and state police forces have been combing the Jodeghat and its surrounding forest for the past few days in the wake of 75^th death anniversary of late Komaram Bheem on October 27.

Local police are making trips every day to Jodeghat from Hatti to inspect the road laying works and keep a watch on the suspicious persons moving in the area and also laborers involved in construction works of Komaram Bheem memorial, arch and museum works.

It may be recalled here that, 13 years ago, one person died and few others injured when Naxalites had triggered a bomb targeting a jeep in which government employees were traveling at a curve on the hillock enroute Jodeghat on the day of Komaram Bheem death anniversary.

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Adivasis flock Jangubai temple

Adivasis of Mankguda in Danthanpalli to Jangubai temple

All roads are leading to cave temple of Jangubai located in the deep jungles in Kerameri mandal on the borders of Telangana and Maharashtra states.

Thousands of Adivasi devotees from Maharashtra and Telangana districts are coming here to have darshan of Goddess Jangubai to fulfill their vows.

As Adivasis believe that goddess Jangubai used to stay in the caves, the religious heads of eight Gond clans are now lighting an earthen lamp in the cave. Having darshan of Jangubai gives a spiritual experience which cannot be described in words.

Adivasis come with their families and other villagers as a group. They stay in the jungles only during the night time and start their journey covering all their religious places enroute to the Jangubai temple. 

The pilgrimage to the Jangubai may even take one week or more for the people of distant places in the Adilabad and other parts of Telangana and also bordering Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Odisha.

The material required for religious event and other luggage will kept in bullock carts and some time place their children in them and the elders walk on foot.

They strongly believe that Jangubai is powerful goddess and their wishes will be fulfilled if they pray for her. Though they have been performing special pujas at Jangubai from the time immemorial, the number of devotees coming to the temple is increasing now.

Jangubai temple chairman Marapa Bhajirao, said the special pujas will be performed at the temple thrice in a year and it starts in the pusyamas and will continue in the entire month and added the drinking water has become major problem for the devotees and the Telangana government must make proper arrangements.