Kolkata: Pre-Puja Traffic Snarls returned to several bags of Kolkata as buyers and Hopper Pandal jostling with office traffic since Thursday night.
About 4,000 police will hit the streets starting at 4 pm on Friday as the Puja Durga celebration began in Tritiya towards the weekend.
The state has urged the committee for Tritiya or Chaturthi opening to cash the puja for the next eight days until the dashami ensures a physical distance.
Chairman of the Minister of Mamata Banerjee on Thursday inaugurated 18 South and Central Kolkata Pujas.
CM Banerjee repeatedly urged people to maintain the Covid protocol and use masks and sanitisers.
Pre-puja pressure that is usually visible in pockets – pockets – pockets – pockets – pockets of the city such as gariage-ballygunge, behala, Seacdah and BATBAGAN.
With some perforated dilapasi throughout Thursday and some large budget pues open their doors to Pandal-Hoppers, the traffic remains slow.
Hopper Pandal mostly used private vehicles, police said.
In the briefing of their last Puja Durga in a police training school chaired by Commissioner of Mitra Soumen, the senior officer was told to expect more people on the previous road.
With people now multiply and no more willing to sit at home, said a senior officer, stressful more to make sure they wore masks and maintain the Covid protocol.
Organizers said people had begun to arrive.
At the Mudiali Club, Ashok Dey, key organizers, said they would not finish their work until late at night on Thursday.
“However, we have people who argue with us to be permitted in saying the command of the High Court will kick only after the official inauguration.
We have to use six of the 14 guards we have recruited this Puja to keep the vigil from fans like that,” Dey said .
At the pally and Behala Rowa Club, which was inaugurated by the previous minister’s chairman, witnessed the flow of steady visitors who appeared on Wednesday night.
Abhishek Bhattacharya, Secretary of Tala Barowari, said the rush was such that they had to install extra barricades and asked people to return on Saturday after the pandal was inaugurated.
“We told them that it would be seen by everyone from a distance, and no one had to worry about barricades and fences.
We did not put it this year,” Bhattacharya said.
The police said special arrangements were made for “Choke Points” such as Rashbehari Avenue, Hatibagan and Tollygunge Circular Road.
Some areas, which have traditionally witnessed a lower number of pujas such as Woodrah Bridge Guard and Vidyasagar Traffic Guards, have transferred their people to manage the most crowded places of CR Avenue, HatiBagan, Rashbehari Avenue and DH Road.