Berhampur: Despite blistering heat,the silk city roads remained crowded with devotees today.Temples are adorned with fragrant flowers and devotional songs amid Jai Sriram reverberated in the air.As such Berhampur wore a festive look for the ongoing Thakurani yatra and Danda nacha,the attraction added today as pandals were erected at different places in the city for the celebration of Ram Navami.People prayed devotional songs at temples and at the pandals.Several organisations opened kiosks to distribute free sweetened drinks to the pedestrians.Devotees performed various rituals at the temples.Police personnel were deployed at crowded places.Along with the religious celebrations,temples,places of historical importance and roads,across Ganjam district crowded with the concerned area pople,who were on a cleanliness programme.On the 6th day of the Odia Pakshya,the cleanliness programme undertaken,where in men and women in large number participated spontaneously.They collected the wastes dumped in the premises of temples and roads.
