Kolkata: Expanded pre-puja weekends and dry Sundays carrying thousands of people who rejoice in pandal-hopping spree in Panca.
The surge has been started from Chaturthi, Saturday, and when the rain subsided, the revelers resembled city streets since the beginning of Sunday morning.
As the day walked, the crowd continued to grow.
While Sreebhumi draws a crowd of records, other big ticket pujas in Lake Town, Bangur Avenue and Dum Dum Park too, interesting thousands of making crowd management for the police.
VIP Road is filled with people at night, slowing down traffic movements for several hours.
Wijgu in Haridevpurcops said they tried their best to force people to use the subway to cross the road and even allow the traffic movement of both roads along the side of the VIP road which was bound by Kolkata.
But the plan did not seem to work even when the wave of tenants erupted on Jalan VIP, ignoring all Covid protocols with the police warned people on loudspeakers that urged them to maintain social distance.
Revelers Towards the most talked about Puja in this part of the city – Srebhumi Sporting where the pandal shaped like Burj Khalifa Dubai – taking anything between one and a half to two hours to cover the 500 meter stretch to reach a pandal from Jalan VIP.
Standing near the entrance of the Mudiali Club, Secretary Ashok Dey continued to examine the continuing increase in the flow of crowds from the afternoon.
“It seems like Saptami or Ashtami.
Since Saturday, we have received more than double the number of visitors we have had so far last year.
I wondered what would happen in the next few days,” Dey said, added that they had been Employ doubled the number of security guards – 14 – compared to last year.
Revelers in Suruchi Sanghato made the most of the extended weekend, the revelers began early on Sunday.
“I was worried about the estimated rain, but when it stopped drizzling from Saturday afternoon, I left with my family.
We have visited almost all the main pandals in South and Central Kolkata,” said Chaudhuri Subhasi, Beleaghata residents.
There was another punfia who was in a hurry to wrap their pandal hopping to make sure they had enough time during the main puja days to live in their neighborhood.
“I will come out and will spend Puja in Purulia on Monday.
I want to visit a few pandals before leaving the city,” said Anjan Chatterjee, a resident of Behala.
Raktima Hazra, a Bonooghly resident stated that he had traveled to Kidderpore to catch a glimpse of 25 per pally before heading to Behala.
Kolkata police who use the power of 8,000 strong in Pancami ensure that traffic continues to flow.
Until Chaturthi, Pujas South Kolkata pujas and heart-based in the north was drawing a crowd.
In Pancaami, two large crowd pullers are Chetla Agrani and Suruchi Sangha.
Likewise, Mudialy-Shibmandir and Tridhara draw a significant crowd.
In the north, Kumartuli Park-Ahiritola and Chaltabagan draw a lot of people.
Meanwhile, Bidhannagar police focused on Sreebhumi who had left VIP Road, the main link to city airport, choked again.
Even though the situation improved compared to Saturday, the police had to bring to Twitter to ask the airport bound passengers to avoid VIP roads.