Moodubelle: Shramadhan in Geetha Mandir in preparation for the Ganeshotsava

Report and Pictures by Mrs. Helen D’Souza, Edmeru
Bellevision Media Network

Moodubelle, 24 August 2010:  As the festival of Ganeshotsav is fast approaching, the various sections and voluntary groups  of Moodubelle joined together in the afternoon of Sunday, 22 August 2010 to offer ‘Shramadhan’ to clean up the interior and  the surrounding space of the Geetha Mandir behind the Belle Grama Panchayat office where the Sarvajanik Ganeshotsava  for three days will be held in the first week of September 2010.

 Volunteers from Mahila and Yuvaka Mandalas, rickshaw, tempo and taxi owners and drivers as well as shop owners and  members of the Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala  Gramabhivraddhi Yojane members  participated in the ‘Shramadhan’. Along  with the  volunteers the office bearers of the  Ganeshotsava Karyakari Samithi, President-Shivaram Salian,  Vice President – Varadaraj Kamath and  Secretary-Devdas Hebbar were present during the ‘Shramadhan’. Volunteers belonging to different communities participated in the ‘Shramadhan’ manifesting the communal harmony and unity among the villagers.