Low-key Bijoya Dashami celebrations in Bengal

The five-day Durga Puja festivities in Bengal got here to an finish on Monday, albeit vibrant processions, which normally mark the event, had been largely lacking from the town streets, because the idol immersion ceremony was noticed by only a handful of individuals.

Dressed in conventional outfits and with masks worn on faces, devotees, whereas sustaining protected distance, touched the ft of goddess Durga as chants of ‘asche bochor abar hobe’ (until subsequent 12 months) lease the air.

Women supplied sweets to the goddess, at the same time as the standard ‘Sindur Khela’ (ladies smear one another with vermilion) was largely restricted to organisers and some native residents on the pandals.

In some components of the state, effigies of Ravana normal because the coronavirus had been burnt as a part of Bijoya Dashami celebrations.

According to Kolkata Police sources, satisfactory preparations had been made to make sure the idol immersion ceremony was peaceable in every single place, with CCTVs put in in any respect river ghats and personnel from civic our bodies and Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) current on the venue to observe the state of affairs.

All puja committees had been informed to ship naked minimal members to the ghats for the observing the rituals.

Close to 1,800 idols had been immersed in numerous ghats of the town until 9 pm, police stated. Around 54 ghats had been earmarked for immersion.

Heavy cranes mounted atop boats had been seen in motion at a number of the ghats to assist raise and extricate the stays of the idols from the river to keep away from water air pollution.

Some puja committees got here up with modern concepts, inserting the idols in makeshift water reservoirs and sprinkling water to dissolve these.

This 12 months, nonetheless, the Durga Puja carnival at Red Road, the place large ticket committees showcase their idols earlier than collaborating within the immersion procession, has been cancelled as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.

(This story has been revealed from a wire company feed with out modifications to the textual content.)

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