Durga puja begins in Garo Hills on colourful note
CORRESPONDENT
TURA, Oct 5 – Offerings of prayer and the beating of drums ushered in the the arrival of Goddess Durga into the puja mandaps here this evening for the week-long Durga puja celebrations.
Durga Puja is the single largest festival of the Hindus who make up a sizeable number of the population in this region.
Thousand of Hindus thronged the Tura bazar for last minute shopping for the gala festival on Sunday morning even as security has been beefed up throughout the three districts of Garo Hills to prevent any untoward incidents from taking place. The tightened security is due to recent explosions in Agartala and the killing of seven Islamic HUJI militants by the Army in Dhubri district of Assam, close to the Garo Hills border.
The Central Puja Committee (CPC) which is overseeing the celebrations have held two rounds of talks with the district administration in Tura. The CPC wants adequate security arrangements in place at all its puja mandaps and providing of street lighting in and around the vicinity of the mandaps.
The administration will be setting up police points at all the mandaps and plain clothes officers will be stationed as spotters in the mandaps.
While the oldest puja mandap in the Garo Hills – the Nepali Durga puja mandap – will be celebrating its 123rd anniversary while two other puja committees – Nabin Pally and Anandamath puja mandap will be taking birth for the first time.
The pujas will culminate with the immersion at Tura Babupara ghat on October 9.
Last year, women broke the age old tradition of only male participation when several hundred womenfolk took part in the immersion procession. source: assam tribune
CORRESPONDENT
TURA, Oct 5 – Offerings of prayer and the beating of drums ushered in the the arrival of Goddess Durga into the puja mandaps here this evening for the week-long Durga puja celebrations.
Durga Puja is the single largest festival of the Hindus who make up a sizeable number of the population in this region.
Thousand of Hindus thronged the Tura bazar for last minute shopping for the gala festival on Sunday morning even as security has been beefed up throughout the three districts of Garo Hills to prevent any untoward incidents from taking place. The tightened security is due to recent explosions in Agartala and the killing of seven Islamic HUJI militants by the Army in Dhubri district of Assam, close to the Garo Hills border.
The Central Puja Committee (CPC) which is overseeing the celebrations have held two rounds of talks with the district administration in Tura. The CPC wants adequate security arrangements in place at all its puja mandaps and providing of street lighting in and around the vicinity of the mandaps.
The administration will be setting up police points at all the mandaps and plain clothes officers will be stationed as spotters in the mandaps.
While the oldest puja mandap in the Garo Hills – the Nepali Durga puja mandap – will be celebrating its 123rd anniversary while two other puja committees – Nabin Pally and Anandamath puja mandap will be taking birth for the first time.
The pujas will culminate with the immersion at Tura Babupara ghat on October 9.
Last year, women broke the age old tradition of only male participation when several hundred womenfolk took part in the immersion procession. source: assam tribune
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