Bhubaneswar: Restrictions on the Puja Durga celebration have encouraged the Panja Pandals community in the city to go digital for the second year in a row.
The large organizers of the Puja have decided to stay telecast, which ritual can be witnessed on the social media platform from the comfort of their home.
The Old Station of the Bazaar Committee Sarbadiya Durga Puja, who accommodated one of the oldest pues in the city from the 1950s, will immediately drain rituals on Facebook and YouTube.
In addition, the committee has also made provisions for worshipers to order Prasad through WhatsApp.
“Puja last year in the middle of a pandemic is a learning experience for all of us and will help us in the smooth running of ritual management without the participation of this time worship.
We will directly stream rituals on Facebook for worshipers and will also broadcast the same thing on the YouTube channel We, “said Deepak Jena, Secretary of the Old Station Bazaar Committee, said.
With the government have limited the height of the idols of the durga to four feet, traditional and gold silver ornaments they will not fit them.
“In such situations, we have decided to make a tableau for Dewi using flowers and also replace gold and silver ornaments with flowers because there will not be in accordance with smaller size idols,” Jena said.
Similar settings have been made by other leading Puja Durga Committees.
The Nayapalli committee, whose pandalnya was a big crowd puller because the beautiful idols and interesting decor had become losing from the usual buzz for the second year.
“There is no meeting to be permitted.
We have decided to show the ritual to our worshipers through the digital platform,” said Naba Kishore Behera, Adviser Committee Nayapalli Durga Puja, said.
Other people like the Saheed Nagar committee, Rasulgarh, Baramunda and Bomichal will also follow in the footsteps of Biggies.