Hyderabad: The Bathini family will start administering their popular fish prasadam at the Exhibition Grounds in Nampally from 11 am on Saturday.
Thousands of people from different parts of the country reached the venue on Thursday itself. On Friday morning, the ‘Bavi puja’ (the well from which the water is drawn to mix the medicine) was performed by the Bathini family at their ancestral home in Doodbowli. They have been into this humanitarian service for the last 174 years.
Officials from the fisheries department, along with NGOs, are looking after the arrangements.
V. Srinivas, general manager of the state fisheries department, said, “we have set up 16 token sales counters and 35 fish counters, while 65 employees from the department will monitor the proceedings.”
He added, “Each fish seed costs Rs 40, the counters will have shifts, whose timings will be from 8 am to 12 noon; 12 noon to 6 am’ 6 pm to midnight and midnight till end of the event.”
Meanwhile, Batthina Anureet Goud, said, “All the family members participated in the morning puja. We are mixing around 500 kg of medicine.”
