HYDERABAD: Telangana government has declared a week long ‘Nagoba Jatara’ in Adilabad district as a state festival and sanctioned `10 lakh for the conduct of the Jatara this year.
Adilabad district officials proposed to organise the tribal festival at Kesalapur village in Indravelli mandal in Adilabad district from January 19 for seven days.
Orders to this effect were issued by the state government on Friday to organise the festival. The jatara is an important religious event wherein devotees of the Mesram clan of Rajgonds worship the serpent god Nagoba.