Name Of the Captain: RAJDEEP RAJKUMAR BHOL
Name Of the Team: TEAM CHALLENGERS
Name of the Team Members: 5
- Rajat Kumar Jena
- Sibajyoti Chinara
- Pinkun Sahoo
- Jitendra Nayak
Name of the ITI: GOVT ITI, ANANDAPUR
Date: 12 May 2022
Profiling important Water bodies of Odisha
Name: Ganda, Padmapur, Anandapur
Type (Natural or Man-made): Natural
The location (city/village and district): Village
Distance From Nearest Bus Stop, Railway Station, District Headquarters & ITI:
Distance from ITI to 7km.
Longitude & Latitude: Latitude(24.357890) Longitude(89.825678)
Size (Radius & Capacity): Approximately quarter acre.
BRIEF HISTORY:
The pond has a unique story; it came along with the temple & a wide field. Local says that around the pond was built about 50-60 years ago, a Shiva Linga appeared in the ground. On seeing the Linga, local villagers decided that they want to make a Shiva Temple. For this they collected money and made the Shiva Temple. As the Temple require lot of poojas and domestic animals grazing in the nearby fields could also be benefited. So the local opened a Pond.
SOCIO-RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE:
Maha Siva Ratri, Panasankranti & Maha Siva Ratri or for any other good deed Use for bathing, drinking water for animals, no ground water, no canal water.
The pond and temple had significance role during the festival of Panasankranti & Maha Siva Ratri or for any other good deed. Here a huge amount of people around the place gather to celebrate the auspicious events. This pond for a lot of time helped as a source of drinking water. This ponds were a source of meeting among the villages and it hold a good reputation for planning and development of the village.
ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE:
There are a few shops around the temple which fill their livelihood from the worship of the temple.
What is the current condition? Any efforts to clean up or rejuvenate the waterbody?
Now the condition of the pond is going to very bad. It is not being used properly. A few years down people took steps to do the work of the pond but for some reason it hasn’t been fixed to this day.
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PROBLEM STATEMENT IDENTIFIED:
We will give our problem statement, that many ponds in our village, which is now in bad condition. Many of the village people every time depends on tube well, as we all knew that under ground water is decreasing day by day. We want to made a irrigation plant that all water of pond make useful to everyone. And we also do a other way to get water for irrigation by rain water. This rain water presserve home also wemade in our near pond and at home, so that people get more water in summer days.
