Gotmar Mela Bridge — Local services in Pandhurna

Sixty five kilometers from Chhindwara, in the headquarters of ‘Pandhurna’ tehsil a unique fair by name ‘Gotmar Mela’ is celebrated every year on the second day to ‘Bhadrapad’ New Moon day. This fair is celebrated on the banks of the river ‘Jam’. A long tree is erected in the middle of the river with a flag at its very top. The residents of the villages ‘Savargaon’ and ‘Pandhurna’ gather on either bank of the river, and start pelting stones (‘Got’) at the persons of the opposite village who try to cross into the mid of the river and remove the flag on top of the tree trunk. The village whose resident succeeds in removing the flag will be considered victorious. The whole activity happens amidst the chanting of the sacred name of Maa Durga. Several people get wounded in this celebration and the District Administration makes elaborate arrangements for the smooth conduct of...

Every year at the occasion of pola a deadly game is played here which is known as gotmar.

It is a day when people on the Bank of river do stone pelting on each other. It's a historic event.

Gotmar means stone throwing ('got' = small stone & 'mar' = beat). Every year a tree trunk (flag) from one of the Savargaon family placed the middle of the river Jam which flows through this village and...

This bridge 🌉 is defferent from other bridge because this bridge famous for gotmal Mela in world and every year many people are playing gotmar Mela and enjoy between pandhurna and savergaav it's an culture of this place and. Playing the risky gotmar Mela many...