Reconnecting with the lost Godavari heritage

The Godavari river scape in

Nashik

is not just ecologically important, but has religious, socio cultural and heritage associations too. However over the last few years, people have lost connect to this vital river.

Thus, in a bid to rekindle this lost connect,

Godavari Parikrama

was arranged on January 14th. The purpose of this walk was to showcase the rich heritage and beauty of the vital river.

“ This initiative was for the people to understand the present status of the river. If people connect with the river, it will help in conservation of its ecology,” informed

Shilpa Dahake

, initiator of a people participatory movement, Reconnecting with Godavari,

which conducted this walk.

This walk covered a stretch of around 8 km from

Ramkund

to

Tapovan

and back. “ This stretch has most heritage places, which was the reason why we chose it,” Shilpa further informed.