Khulna(South) Correspondent :
Preparations for performing the upcoming Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of Hindu community, are going on at 10 districts of Khulna division. At least 4500 puja mondops were already decorated. Works of making icons were completed. Of course, the idols were not given color yet.
Shyamal Halder, President , Khulna city Puja Udjapon Parishad said, at 115 puja mondops , Durga puja would be performed this year.
Professor Krishna Pada Das, general secretary of Khulna district unit of Puja udjapon parishad said, 792 puja mondops were decorated in Khulna district.
Image making was completed at 907 mondops in Khulna city and district , arrangers said.
The visitors will be attracted this year with the grandeur furnishing the mondops, arrangers added.
Modhusudan Bhatcharya, chief Priest of Khulna Arjo Dharmoshava temple told this correspondent that Duirga Puja might be completed with peace and security this year.
Subrata Bhatcharya, assistant priest of the temple said, CC cameras will be installed around the temple with a view to ensure security.
Birendra Nath Ghosh, president of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oiykko Parishad’s Khulna unit said, donation might be given by Khulna City Corporation (KCC) and Khulna district administration authority for every mondops.
SM Moniruzzaman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Khulna Range said, Durga Puja will be performed this year at around 4500 puja mondops at 10 districts of Khulna division. Among them 1135 mondops were marked as more important , 1590 as important and 1725 were marked as general ones by the law enforcing agencies, he added.
In order to ensure security, check points, mobile teams, Police, Rab and Ansars will be deployed at all puja mondops, DIG Moniruzzaman said.
Staff Reporter from Kishoreganj adds:
The holy Durga Puja of the Hindu community people is going to start from October 7 next. In this connection, the people of hte community are taking preparation to celebrate the festival with due fevour.
A views exchange meeting with Hindu Community leaders on keeping law and order during the upcoming Durga Puja organised by District Administration was held at local collectorate conference room with District Magistrate Md. Azimuddin Biswas Monday.
Additional Police Super Md. Rakib Khan, RAB- 14 Company Commonder, Intelligences, Journalists and Hindu Community leader of 13 upazilas in this connection.
BSS from Narail adds: Durga Puja, one of the greatest religious festival of the Hindu community, will be celebrated here with great enthusiasm across the district.
The five-day long festival will begin through 610 mandaps from October 7 with due respect and religious fervor.
Sculptors are now busy in finishing touches idols in some 610 mandaps in sadar, Kalia and Lohagora upazilas of the district.
President of District Puja Udjapon Committee Ashok Kumar Kundu said, almost 80 percent works of the idols had already been completed and the rest works would be completed within next one week. District administration and Puja Udjapon Committee sources said, Durga puja will be held in 610 mandaps in Sadar, Lohagora and Kalia uazilas of the district this year.
Of them, 272 puja mandaps were erected in sadar upazila, 174 in Kalia and 164 in Lohagora upazila.
People have already started visiting different mandaps in the district town, upazila headquarters and rural areas of the district with great festivity.
Bagerhat Correspondent adds: Brisk preparations are afoot in Bagerhat district town and its all the nine Upazilas to celebrate 6-day long Durga Puja, the biggest and the most important religious festival of the Bengali Hindu community in a befitting manner and traditional way. The ceremony will commence on Thursday. According to the Bagerhat district Puja Udjapan committee, as many as 583 Puja mandaps are going to be installed throughout the district. This year the highest number of Puja Mandaps (141 in number) is being erected in Chitalmari Upzila in the district while the biggest Puja Mandap in the couintry is being erected at Shikdarbari in the village Hakimpur under Bagerhat Sadar Upazila.
Preparations for performing the upcoming Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of Hindu community, are going on at 10 districts of Khulna division. At least 4500 puja mondops were already decorated. Works of making icons were completed. Of course, the idols were not given color yet.
Shyamal Halder, President , Khulna city Puja Udjapon Parishad said, at 115 puja mondops , Durga puja would be performed this year.
Professor Krishna Pada Das, general secretary of Khulna district unit of Puja udjapon parishad said, 792 puja mondops were decorated in Khulna district.
Image making was completed at 907 mondops in Khulna city and district , arrangers said.
The visitors will be attracted this year with the grandeur furnishing the mondops, arrangers added.
Modhusudan Bhatcharya, chief Priest of Khulna Arjo Dharmoshava temple told this correspondent that Duirga Puja might be completed with peace and security this year.
Subrata Bhatcharya, assistant priest of the temple said, CC cameras will be installed around the temple with a view to ensure security.
Birendra Nath Ghosh, president of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oiykko Parishad’s Khulna unit said, donation might be given by Khulna City Corporation (KCC) and Khulna district administration authority for every mondops.
SM Moniruzzaman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Khulna Range said, Durga Puja will be performed this year at around 4500 puja mondops at 10 districts of Khulna division. Among them 1135 mondops were marked as more important , 1590 as important and 1725 were marked as general ones by the law enforcing agencies, he added.
In order to ensure security, check points, mobile teams, Police, Rab and Ansars will be deployed at all puja mondops, DIG Moniruzzaman said.
Staff Reporter from Kishoreganj adds:
The holy Durga Puja of the Hindu community people is going to start from October 7 next. In this connection, the people of hte community are taking preparation to celebrate the festival with due fevour.
A views exchange meeting with Hindu Community leaders on keeping law and order during the upcoming Durga Puja organised by District Administration was held at local collectorate conference room with District Magistrate Md. Azimuddin Biswas Monday.
Additional Police Super Md. Rakib Khan, RAB- 14 Company Commonder, Intelligences, Journalists and Hindu Community leader of 13 upazilas in this connection.
BSS from Narail adds: Durga Puja, one of the greatest religious festival of the Hindu community, will be celebrated here with great enthusiasm across the district.
The five-day long festival will begin through 610 mandaps from October 7 with due respect and religious fervor.
Sculptors are now busy in finishing touches idols in some 610 mandaps in sadar, Kalia and Lohagora upazilas of the district.
President of District Puja Udjapon Committee Ashok Kumar Kundu said, almost 80 percent works of the idols had already been completed and the rest works would be completed within next one week. District administration and Puja Udjapon Committee sources said, Durga puja will be held in 610 mandaps in Sadar, Lohagora and Kalia uazilas of the district this year.
Of them, 272 puja mandaps were erected in sadar upazila, 174 in Kalia and 164 in Lohagora upazila.
People have already started visiting different mandaps in the district town, upazila headquarters and rural areas of the district with great festivity.
Bagerhat Correspondent adds: Brisk preparations are afoot in Bagerhat district town and its all the nine Upazilas to celebrate 6-day long Durga Puja, the biggest and the most important religious festival of the Bengali Hindu community in a befitting manner and traditional way. The ceremony will commence on Thursday. According to the Bagerhat district Puja Udjapan committee, as many as 583 Puja mandaps are going to be installed throughout the district. This year the highest number of Puja Mandaps (141 in number) is being erected in Chitalmari Upzila in the district while the biggest Puja Mandap in the couintry is being erected at Shikdarbari in the village Hakimpur under Bagerhat Sadar Upazila.
Images of as many as 601 deities are being installed on the Mandap. A good number of visitors are visiting this biggest Puja Mandap every day.
The artisans are now working round the clock to give the finishing touches to the images of Durga.
The houses of the Hindu community are humming with activity. Men, women and children are already out in the market to make necessary purchases for the occasion in advance. Shopkeepers have become very busy in meeting the demands of the buyers.
