The happy season is thumping our entryways as Durga Puja starts from 17th October. Subsequent to being the time of everything unordinary, 2020 will, in the end, start that promising time of jollity a month after the festival of Mahalaya. It will be a challenge to celebrate Durga puja during a pandemic along with COVID guidelines. Keep reading for more interesting facts.
 |
| Goddess Durga |
Mahalaya or Mahalaya Amavasya is commended on the fifteenth day of the Amavasya in the long stretch of Ashwin. It falls on the most recent day of Pitru paksha or Shradh. This year Mahalaya is on September 17.
Mahalaya is supposed to be the day when goddess Durga crushed the evil spirit named Mahishasura. The day means the finish of Pitru Paksha Shradh and the start of Dusshera for Bengalis. Pitru Paksha is a time of honouring the ancestors and to appeal to God for the peace of their spirits.
Bengalis praise the upbeat event of Mahalaya by tuning in to Mahisasuramardini toward the beginning of the day, a sound of Chandipath recitation from the scriptural sections of Sri Chandi alongside reverential tunes.
The day is believed to be Goddess Durga's excursion from Mount Kailash, where she lives with her better half Lord Shiva and kids, to her maternal home on Earth. Her method of transportation changes each year, from elephant, pony, cart, or a boat.
On her appearance, the much anticipated multi day-Durga Puja starts to praise her triumph over wickedness. Puja pandals of different subjects are set up and individuals wear new garments, trade endowments and enjoy lavish dinners with loved ones.
In ordinary conditions, Dusshera starts seven days after Mahalaya. Be that as it may, Goddess Durga will show up a month in the not so distant future and the puja will start from October 22.
No permission to build pandal in Patna
Citing the central government's guideline, the district administration has refused to build pandals, install statues and hold a fair in Durgapuja. According to the guidelines of the Central Government, not more than 100 people can gather in an event. If a fair is organized and pandals are made it will be difficult to follow COVID guidelines and it might turn out to be a great risk in disguise.
Durga Puja downsized, Navratri celebration cancelled in Gujarat
Navratri celebration cancelled in Gujarat with day by day expansion of Covid-19 cases enrolling more than 1,398, the Gujarat government has chosen not to hold the nine-night Navratri celebration this year. Boss clergyman Vijay Rupani declared that it would not hold the state-level 'Navratri Mahotsav' at Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) ground, a significant fascination for fun-lovers consistently.
Durga Puja festivity boards of trustees have likewise chosen to downsize their celebrations. Bengal Cultural Association, which has been getting sorted out city's greatest Durga Puja for as far back as 80 years, designs a 'virtual puja' which would be radiated live through Internet organization.
A symbol of Goddess Durga and her kids would be introduced at the Kali Bari premises however lovers would be required to visit quickly keeping up social separations. Other Durga Puja coordinators have likewise chosen to keep the festivals and social events at an absolute minimum with no social projects and food slows down.
Coordinators of Durga pujas and Garba moves during Navratri are keeping their fingers crossed about the idea of their festivals as the legislature has not yet explained its remain about the 'quantum' of consent to be at last allowed.
Interest for consent to neighbourhood Garba occasions are proceeding from media outlets, providers of instruments, lighting, decorators and food slow down proprietors however the administration is probably going to take a firm substitute perspective on rising COVID cases in the state.
You may visit the link for COVID-19 guidelines:https://www.dailyboxlife.com/search/label/covid-19%20guidelines
Durga Puja pandals to be open from all sides, hand sanitisers at passage focuses: Mamata Banerjee issues COVID rules
In front of the up and coming Durga Puja celebrations, one month from now – the greatest yearly spectacle in West Bengal – boss clergyman Mamata Banerjee gave certain requests and rules for the individuals just as the Puja pandal panels over the state in wake of the novel COVID pandemic.
Among the requests, Mamata said that a pandal should be open from each of the four sides. Hand sanitisers ought to be put at passage purposes of pandals.
The West Bengal CM additionally worried on the way that wearing of veils obligatory while visiting the pandals. Physical removing should be kept up.
Sorting out social projects at pandals won't be permitted and Durga Puja Carnival won't be composed for the current year, Mamata included.
The state government is additionally going to give? 50,000 to every Durga puja panel of the state, Mamata reported in a public interview.
The state will give? 2,000 to peddlers for Durga Puja. For this, a rundown of 75,000 sellers arranged, Mamata included.
An administration official said that the state has made sufficient arrangement to satisfy the force need in the city and regions during the bubbly days.
"We are making an arrangement of five per cent overabundance interest for power this Durga Puja than the earlier year. We have provisioned for 8,400MW interest in the state. Be that as it may, power request is probably going to be less because of the pandemic," West Bengal Power Minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay said.
With only a few days left for Durga puja, arrangements have started over the city, yet at a lower scale this time, as coordinators chalk out security intends to keep away from additionally spread infection.
Prior, as per a PTI report, three Durga puja advisory groups in the city, all group pullers and situated inside one-km stretch in south Kolkata, have held hands to present a drive-in 'darshan' idea - a plan which would permit individuals to hinder their vehicle to investigate the pandal and the Durga icon without landing from their vehicles.
"As keeping up physical separation is obligatory, we needed to think about an idea that would abstain from swarming close the pandals. Our supporter, Texas-based Mridul Pathak, thought of this drive-in idea during a video gathering. Soon after, we set the ball moving," Kapil Dev Pathak, an official carrier of Badamtala Pujo board of trustees, said. Sanitiser will be showered on the vehicles before each puja pandal, he said.
As Per News18, No Durga Puja Pandals in UP Due to Pandemic, Ramleelas to be Allowed With Social Distancing.
As Coronavirus cases keep on rising unabated across Uttar Pradesh, specialists have concluded that there will be no Durga Puja Pandals during Navratri this year. While the Ramleela will be organized after social removing standards.
UP CM-Yogi Adityanath-drove state government will before long issue rules concerning the forthcoming bubbly season. The arranging of Ramleela is an antiquated convention and it can't be broken, so this time it will be organized amid Covid-19 standards and guidelines, said CM Adityanath.
To contain the spread of the infection, just 100 onlookers will be permitted to assemble at the Ramleela locales while following social removing, customary disinfection at the site and obligatory defensive veils for the guests, Adityanath included.
In the interim, all the public occasions, parades have been prohibited for Durga Puja and the CM has coordinated that individuals can revere during Navratri by introducing icons in their homes. In any case, boards of trustees which used to sort out Ramleelas and Durga Puja are currently pondering to go online for the crowds.
Durga Puja arrangements going all out in Gaibandha (Bangladesh)
A symbol of the Goddess Durga is being moulded at a sanctuary in front of the Durga Puja in Gaibandha on Tuesday, September 2020 Dhaka Tribune.
 |
| Sindoor Khela by Bengalis on Vijayadashami |
Leader of District Puja Udjapon Parishad Ranajit Bakshi Surjya said a sum of 625 puja mandaps would be raised in all the seven Upazilas in the area this year.
Arrangements are advancing quickly in Gaibandha for the 5-day strict capacity of Durga Puja, the greatest strict celebration of the Hindu Community in the nation. The celebration will start from October 22 and is planned to close on October 26.
Various huge pandals are being raised for puja festivities over the area. Specialists are occupied with giving the last shape to icons of Goddess Durga and evil spirit ruler Mahishasur nonstop at different spots in the region.
The 5-day long celebration of the network will start with due regard and strict enthusiasm through the drenching of icons at various water bodies including lakes, waterways and streams.
Leader of District Puja Udjapon Parishad Ranajit Bakshi Surjya said a sum of 625 puja mandaps would be brought up in all the seven Upazilas in the area this year yet the quantity of the mandaps may increment further.
In the wake of visiting distinctive puja mandaps in the locale town, it was seen that the craftsmen (Malarkars) are spending their active occasions with painting and other important attempts to make the symbols exceptionally alluring and pleasant looking to the fans and the guests.
The activity has additionally been taken to give continuous force flexibly to the puja mandaps at evenings to empower Hindu followers to offer their puja supplications and perform Archana, kirtans, arati and different strict ceremonies said an authority.
Administrator of police (SP) Muhammad Towhidul Islam said full-verification safety efforts have been taken in and around of all the puja mandaps of the locale by law authorizing organizations to guarantee a serene environment for holding the puja celebration easily.
Police, Ansar and VDP individuals including town police would be sent at the puja mandaps each and the world-class powers RAB would likewise watch headed straight toward hold the puja easily here, the SP additionally said.The harsh and legal move would be made against the people associated with making political agitation and inconvenience at the hour of puja, he cautioned.
Like the earlier years, region organization has taken up activity to hold a preliminary gathering to mastermind the celebration in the area calmly, the DC office sources said.
