Hyderabad: A year after a weak Durga Puja celebration, Bengali cultural organization in the city hopes that 2021 will see a more lively atmosphere in the puja mandap.
While complicated settings are in place for worshipers, given the warning about the third wave of Covid-19 to come, the organizer agreed that a strict vaccination rate had enabled them to raise the scale of the celebration last year.
“Most worshipers want to come to our puja because of our oldest,” said Sumit Sen, Secretary General of Hyderabad Bangalee Samity, who marked the 80th Puja Durga celebration of this year.
“But no more than 50 worshipers will be allowed in the mandap at the time and 100 people in place.
We will have barricades outside the venue and volunteers to help with the crowd control.
Idols also smaller sized.” Other organizers have followed it with more sized idols.
Small and limiting the number of people in line with Government Regulations.
Bangiya Sanskritik Sangha, said President Deepak Bhattacharya has made two doses of Covid-19 vaccine mandatory to enter the venue.
Entering the Puja organized by the UTSAB Cultural Association in Gachibowli will also be arranged with a two-dose certificate or negative RT-PCR test results, said Secretary General Krishnendu Roy, agreed that while they anticipate a larger crowd this year, different time slots will be allocated to worshiper.
In Narsingi, Chiranjeet Ghosh, Secretary of Uttaran Bangiya Samiti, who organized the fourth Puja Durga, said, “We have separate areas for children and encourage the elderly worshipers to avoid peak time.” “Before the pandemic, we will see between 5,000 and 6,000 visitors a day for our ‘Bhog’.
In 2020, we dropped to 300 visitors per day, but this year we expect about 500 steps on every festival day,” said Sanjay Bose , Member of the Bengalee Cultural Association Executive Committee, Masab Tank.
“We hope this will be a better year.
However, Durga Puja is a matter of sentiment among the community.”