Kolkata: Durga Puja is still seven more weeks but Kolkata traffic police and several local police stations have begun to collect initial information from large budget organizers about their plans.
Some organizers have notified the police change they propose to make their pandal this year, remembering the possibility of the third wave of Covid.
MD Ali Park in Central Kolkata and Mudaiali in the south is a venue that shifts to allow better suckers than idols.
“We want to understand the organizers so we can make traffic arrangements.
However, the final permit will only be given after the government declares the SOP,” said an officer.
“We have told Tollygunge police and local traffic guards that we shift our venue so we can keep the Pandal Seaka as possible.
We followed every government’s order and court from last year.
Thus, this year, we want to keep open space for the movement of the car In front of our pandal and the full view of the whole pandal remotely.
We also have told them that our pandal was built in the room and that we would only collect it before the pujas, “Ashok Dey said from the Mudiali Club.
The biggest festival this year is still a few weeks away and someone cannot predict where the virus will change.
But all precautions must be taken to ensure we have a safe puja durga.
If that means cutting angle or changing the plan for a long time, so that’s how it is.
“We have discussed our plans with local police,” said Sushanta Kumar Saha, President Ahiritola Sarbojanin.
The organizer at MD Ali Park also held a meeting with the police by returning to the park where two years.
The police insisted that the pandal along Central Avenue was built in such a way that idols could not be seen from the road and there was no traffic.