Kakinada MP Vanga Geetha, Visakhapatnam Post Master General M. Venkateswarlu, and Buddhist monks on Wednesday released a special postal cover on a 3 rd century Buddhist stupa at Kodavali in Gollaprolu mandal in Kakinada district.
This is the 60 th special postal cover released by the Department of Posts on various themes such as arts, culture and heritage, cuisine diversity, personalities, and places of Andhra Pradesh.
The Buddhist stupa, spread over 1.8 acres of land, is facing threat due to proposed laterite mining in the region. Falling in Survey No. 133/1, the stupa is part of Turakula Konda on which the mining proposal was cleared by the Revenue Department in 2021.
