Two-day Vishwakarma Puja was celebrated amidst lots of excitements and fanfare in various places in the industrial Jharsuguda district on Friday and Saturday.
Workers, technicians, and members of management in MCl’s coal mine areas, Ib Thermal Power Plant, Vedanta and various other large and small scale industries across the district offered prayers to lord Vishwakarma, who is believed to be the divine architect for safe conditions in industrial units.
Besides private truck owners and automobile garages also decorated their premises, washed all their trucks and heavy duty vehicles clean and offered prayers to lord Vishwakarma.
An estimated 5,000 trucks, cars and auto rickshaw owners also decorated their vehicles with colourful artificial flowers and ribbons.
Sweet shops, fruits and flower vendors of the district made bumper sales on the occasion in sweets and gift packages. The Vishwakarma idols would be immersed in the Ib river on Sunday.