People made offerings to lord Biswakarma, the lord of architecture, tools and machinery here on Thursday.
All the mechanical and technical persons were instructed not to use the tools and equipment on the day of the Puja.
The festival was observed in MCl’s five opencast and three underground mines and set-ups of Vedanta, OPGC, TRl, Ind-Bharat, Concast and MSP Metallics. Besides, the Private Truck Owners Association and automobile garages decorated their premises and washed all their trucks and heavy duty vehicles. More than 7,000 truck, car and auto rickshaw owners also decorated their vehicles with colourful artificial flowers and ribbons in Brajrajnagar, Belpahar, Bandhbahal, Banharpali and Jharsuguda.
Similarly, other workshops, bus-stands and auto rickshaw stands in the district were adorned with special decoration and light arrangements on the occasion of the Biswakarma Puja. The famous snacks and sweets shops of the city like Anand, Prince, Tiwari, Gorav, Milan, Subhash and Murarui remained busy for preparing sweets packets. Some of them offered dry sweet packets of Haldiram. Fruit and flower sellers were also busy this year for their huge sale.