{"id":10487,"date":"2025-04-01T06:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T06:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2025-04-01T06:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T06:40:36","slug":"clean-litter-plastic-free-kangundi-inselberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/?p=10487","title":{"rendered":"Clean Litter &amp; Plastic Free Kangundi Inselberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sarpanch Shri G Dhanasekhar starts initiative for clean litter and plastic free Kangundi in anticipation of introduction of bouldering\/ climbing\/ rappelling tourism and homestays<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Led by Shri G <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/1EWA87dbJW\/\">Dhanasekhar<\/a>, Sarpanch of Kangundi, the Panchayat of Kangundi and its people have got together to clean up Kangundi Durgam\/ Fort and Village. This is in preparation of the expected arrival of tourists for bouldering, climbing and rappelling on the inselberg of Kangundi and the boulders, crags and cliffs around it. The people, after cleaning up their Kangundi Village on 29 March 2025, climbed up the Kangundi Durgam\/ Fort on the ancient inselberg to clean up the precincts of the Sri Malleswara Swami Temple on the top.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sri-Malleswara-Temple-Kangundi-Top-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10497\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sri Malleswara Swami Temple on top of Shivling shaped Inselberg of Kangundi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"10498\" src=\"http:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Holy-Nandi-of-Sri-Malleswara-Swami-Temple-on-Kangundi-Inselberg-Top-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Holy-Nandi-of-Sri-Malleswara-Swami-Temple-on-Kangundi-Inselberg-Top-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Holy-Nandi-of-Sri-Malleswara-Swami-Temple-on-Kangundi-Inselberg-Top-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Holy-Nandi-of-Sri-Malleswara-Swami-Temple-on-Kangundi-Inselberg-Top-1-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Holy-Nandi-of-Sri-Malleswara-Swami-Temple-on-Kangundi-Inselberg-Top-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Holy Nandi outside Temple of Sri Malleswara Swamy on top of Inselberg of Kangundi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"10499\" src=\"http:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Idol-of-Sri-Malleswara-Swami-Temple-on-Kangundi-Inselberg-Top-1-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Idol-of-Sri-Malleswara-Swami-Temple-on-Kangundi-Inselberg-Top-1-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Idol-of-Sri-Malleswara-Swami-Temple-on-Kangundi-Inselberg-Top-1.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shivalingam of Sri Malleswara Swami in the Temple on top of Inselberg of Kangundi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thanks are due to Shri PS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/18ErrEm2kw\/\">Munirathnam<\/a> and Prof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/choks2005?igsh=OW44Y3o5bmFqd3dv\">Chokkalingam<\/a>, both sons-of-soil, who are wholeheartedly supporting this campaign in their ancestral village in Kuppam, Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India. Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/pat.vsws.co.in\/\">Kuppam Area Development Authority<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/collectorctr\/?hl=en\">Collector Chittoor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tourism.ap.gov.in\/\">Andhra Pradesh Tourism Department<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tadekam.com\/\">Mahavtar Babaji Tadekam Foundation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarpanch Shri G Dhanasekhar starts initiative for clean litter and plastic free Kangundi in anticipation of introduction of bouldering\/ climbing\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,129,106,81,80,128],"tags":[132,93,95,133,130,131,20,117,114,119,109,118,107,116],"class_list":["post-10487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cleanliness","category-culture","category-exploration-blogs","category-kangundi-blogs","category-swachhata","tag-cleankangundi","tag-climbing","tag-kuppam","tag-litterplasticfreekangundi","tag-swachhata","tag-swachhkangundi","tag-adventure","tag-adventuretourism","tag-bouldering-2","tag-boulders-2","tag-chittoor-2","tag-inselberg-2","tag-kangundi-2","tag-rockclimbing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10500,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/10500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangundiboulder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}