Stress laid on eco-friendly celebration of Durga Puja in Tamulpur district of Assam

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GORESWAR: The Tamulpur district administration has laid emphasis on celebrating an eco-friendly and pollution-free Durga Puja in the district and urged the puja committees of the district to initiate all sorts of measures to ensure the purpose. The district administration has also asked the puja committees to refrain from using plastic items in the puja mandaps and to use enough number of dustbins to maintain cleanliness and hygiene. On behalf of the district administration, the Deputy Commissioner of Tamulpur, Bidyut Bikash Bhagawati made this appeal to the puja committees while holding a meeting with the puja committees in the conference hall of his office.

The meeting was organized in order to hold a detailed discussion about the guidelines of the Durga Puja SOPs, served by the Government of Assam and Assam State Pollution Control Board and about the effective implementation of them across the district during the celebration of the ensuing Durgotsov. The meeting was attended by all ADCs, circle officers, departmental officers, Goreswar Municipal Board and the president and secretary of the Durga Puja Committees in the district.

While chairing the meeting, the Deputy Commissioner asked the puja committees to receive prior permission from the district administration and ‘No Objection Certificates’ (NOCs ) from the Fire Brigade and Electricity Department.

In the meeting, puja committees were called upon not to block roads and other public places while setting up the puja mandaps. The puja committees were also called upon to engage enough number of male and female volunteers in the puja mandap premises. They were further instructed to pay importance upon the security and protective measures at the puja mandaps, manage parking place, separate entrance for male and female devotees and healthy ingredients for the prasad to be distributed among them. In the same meeting, instructions were issued to the puja committees in connection with the immersion of the Durga idols too.

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