Clothes thrown into the Pampa cause pollution

Radhakrishnan Kuttoor SABARIMALA The Hindu, January 3, 2008 A recently evolved custom of abandoning clothes in the Pampa by pilgrims, mostly from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka returning after darshan at the Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, is causing pollution at the foothills, affecting normal flow of the river. Workers from Tamil Nadu collecting clothes abandoned in the river to sell them at Rs.2 to 5 to contractors...

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