Now, govt wants to develop Hanuman Tirth as leisure spot

Ponda: Water resources minister Vinod Palyekar on Thursday visited the Hanuman

Tirth

at Ponda along with officials department and instructed them to draw up a plan to develop it as a recreational space. A report regarding the restoration of the spring was published in The Times of India in its Tuesday edition.

The Hanuman Tirth, that lies towards the northern side of the Ponda bypass, got buried under mud and debris during construction of the bypass. For a decade the spring, which was once considered holy and whose waters were used to bath the idol of Lord Hanuman in the nearby Maruti temple, lay suffocated and almost forgotten. Migrant labourers residing in the vicinity used its waters to meet their daily needs.

That was until a four-member student team from GVM GGPR College of Commerce and Economics, Farmagudi, took it upon themselves to revive it.

The Farmagudi college team bagged the Ponda Spring Revival Project after participating in an inter-university competition on water resource management organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) in Delhi. With the help of green activists and some groups, the students cleared the spring of little and algae.

There are also a couple of other springs along the highway that are in need of dire attention, too, especially the Nagzar spring.

“There are a few other springs in the town that can be restored. One of them is at Mestawada, whose waters were used for drinking purposes,” Sachin Vandagekar, a team member said.


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