Medaram a tiny village in warangal will be filled with people in the forest area to celebrate Medaram jathara or sammakka saralamma jathara from Feburary 17th 2016 to Feburary 20th 2016 medaram jathara in deep forest and far from hustle and bustle of area in warangal , Medaram jathara the abode of Sammakka and Saralamma jatara underwent a huge metamorphosis with ever increasing footfall of devotees from all over india and abroad . The biennial jatara, said to be the biggest tribal carnival on the globe, which has seen people coming on foot, bullock carts and buses, is now grown more in popularity with chopper services also at their doorsteps now telangana government is providing helicopter service also from begumpet .
In 1966, the state-owned RTC first introduced bus services to the tribal fiesta from Warangal district, Karimnagar and Khammam with a fleet of little over 100 buses to jathara. Now, the administration is running more than 3,600 buses from all corners of the Telangana state, besides the special trains run by the SouthCentral Railways to Warangal. But the moot point is that the region has lost huge tracts of greenery around deities’ gaddelu (raised platforms) consequently hitting the livelihood of quite a few forest-dwellers in the area.
With number of devotees growing from thousands to lakhs to the jathara since the jatara came under the purview of Endowments Department in 1968 it went under endownment department the locals are deprived of their land and crop income every year. During jatara, their land was used to provide amenities to the devotees but people in medaram is losing their livelihood. The locals moved the High Court seeking compensation from the government in combined andhrapradesh too about their livelihood at the jatara time. Despite the opposition from the locals, the authorities turned the temple precincts into a concrete establishment like the shrines in urban areas and government took over under endownment department temple.
Since the government recognized the jatara as the State festival in 1996 government is making arrangements a compound wall around the temple of sammakka sarakka along with iron grills around gaddelu of sammakka gadde was constructed at that period. Now this year as this is the first time jatara is going to be celebrated by goverment of telanagana and the first time after formation of telangana the authorities laid granite slabs inside the temple compound area . aiming the development of the area government authorities have forgotten the importance of both the fig trees under which the altars of Sammakka and Saralamma were offered mokkulu every jathara time .
Actually With one tree already gone by now the other one is ready to die due to the concrete structures around the sanctum sanctum and the huge quantities of jaggery placed around the altars its about to die. Siddaboina Lakshman Rao the priest at the medaram jathara 2016 one of the jatara’s priest said The culture and tradition of Adivasis is in danger due to the interference of the politics in the jatara administration and the goverment involvement . The locals were completely ignored despite several representations to the government to make it mandatory to run the jatara only by the Adivasis and reduce the role of non-tribals as its a tribal festival and cores of people are expected the culture should not be spoiled
For many non-tribal people, this is like going to picnic. They come drink and enjoy and that is only meaning the Jatara carries to them which is actually not so,” Prof. A. Sitaram Naik said.
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