Women recite Shiva Tandava Stotra at Assi Ghat in Varanasi ANI | Updated: Mar 09, 2021 07:38 IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India] March 9 (ANI): To mark the occasion of International Women s Day, women in large numbers gathered at Varanasi s Assi Ghat to recite the Shiv Tandav Stotra.
During Ganga Aarti, the simultaneous recitation by thousands of women echoed on the banks of the River Ganges. A total of 1008 women recited Shiv Tandav Stotra at Assi Ghat. I am feeling proud to be part of it. Its aim is to be spread positivity, said a participant.
The women were dressed in a combination of red-white and green-white sarees.
Varanasi: The launch of mega Ganga cleanliness drive in the name of ‘Ganga Swachchta Abhiyan’ witnessed an overwhelming response from local denizens as over 1,900 volunteers thronged the ghats along river Ganga and removed 16 tonne of waste material from water surface and ghats in one hour on Sunday morning though only 1,600 had registered.
The drive has been initiated to make the sanitation drive initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi a grand success by sensitising and involving locals, said divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal while participating in the cleanliness drive at Assi Ghat.
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said, “The cleaning of ghats is already being ensured by the Varanasi Municipal Corporation. The basic objective behind launch of this mega drive is to make the people realizing that keeping Ganga and its ghats clean is their responsibility as well.”
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