With the shutting down of one of the big-budget pandals for violating COVID-19 norms, Tripura has celebrated the Bengali’s grand festival – Durga Puja peacefully amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As the Durga Puja reached its last day on Monday, people, along with their families, thronged the bank of Howrah River to bid goodbye to Goddess Durga.
Unlike previous years, the immersion ceremony in the bank of river Howrah this year witnessed a low key due to the pandemic. A large gathering of people during the immersion ceremony mainly in the capital town of Agartala remained off the road.
Elaborate security arrangements by the city police as well as the civic authorities were in place on various ghats to ensure that the immersion passed off peacefully.
Sindoor Khela' (smearing of vermilion) which marks the day of ‘Dashami’ this year was restricted in the temples whereas women across the capital town were seen in very low key performing the ritual in the club pandals of their own area.
Meanwhile, after visuals of crowds thronging one of the largest Durga Puja pandal in Agartala went viral on social media, West Tripura district administration Monday ordered the organisers, Bharat Ratna Sangha, to shut it down and immerse the idol the same evening.
In an order issued on Monday, West Tripura District Magistrate Shailesh Kumar Yadav said the state government had issued specific guidelines under The Disaster Management Act, 2005 for strict compliance by the club or community puja organizers to avoid community transmission of COVID-19.
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