Around 3,000 BJD Mahila activists led by WODC Chairman Kishore Kumar Mohanty took out a Kalas Yatra from Manmohan School Ground in Jharsuguda on Sunday in protest against the construction of barrages on river Mahanadi in Chhattisgarh.
The Mahila activists collected water in earthen pots from a water tanker and went around the town carrying the earthen pots on their heads.
Near Gandhi statue, the women activists broke the earthen pots in front of the photographs of Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Union Minister of State for Water Resources Sanjeev Balyan.
Minister Snehangini Churia, BJD State Mahila president Pramila Mallick, Rural Development Minister Badrinarayan Patra, lift Irrigation Corporation Chairman Anup Kumar Sai, Jharsuguda Municipality Chairman Harish Ganantra and Manoranjan Mohapatra addressed the gathering.