On Kartiki Purnima, Hindu devotees are deprived of bath at Vautha’s Sapta-sangam venue(a place where seven rivers meet) due to very much polluted Sabarmati river.

In Ahmedabad city, Sabarmati river may have comparatively a decent look but leave Ahmedabad and travel just some miles away to Vautha and you can witness another look of the river Sabarmatri which is completely black, polluted and smelling dirty. It is virtually impossible to have a holy bath either in Sabarmati river or in Sapta-sangam(because Sabarmati is part of Sapta-sangam) at Vautha.

In such situation people who anyhow want to perform Sangam bath ritual to follow their age-old tradition pass through the dirty Sabarmati water and take bath in the Vatrak river on the other side of the fair. The river Vatrak is minimum polluted because it does not come from any so-called-developed-industrial-urban area.

Hindus consider rivers as their mother and Goddess but Hindus do not treat them so. Sadly dirty drainage water and polluted chemical waters flow in our mother and Goddess.

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