The Cuttack district
administration has granted permission to organise community Durga pujas with out any congregation in pandals and in strict adherence to social distancing norms, an authentic said.
The puja committees can possess a good time the competition within the silver metropolis of Odisha with out violating the COVID-19 pointers, Cuttack Collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani said.
“Striking forward social distancing norms, heading off mass gatherings and wearing masks, the organisers can shield Durga puja at their respective pandals,” Chayani said.
Puja organisers can construct the rituals but no congregation would maybe be allowed within the pandals, he said.
The Durga puja committees welcomed the district administration’s resolution and said they would possibly be able to apply the health safety pointers within the pandals and moreover all the way in which by immersion of the idols.
Earlier, the district collector had refused to give permission to organise the Durga pujas in October within the wake of the present coronavirus pandemic, following which the Balu Bazaar Puja Committee, indubitably one of the most oldest community puja organisers within the metropolis, approached the Orissa High Court, seeking its intervention for the continuation of a 500-year- feeble custom.
No longer lower than 167 committees possess a good time the Durga puja competition within the metropolis with pomp and gaiety.
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