Ganesh Chaturthi was celebrated with fervour across the State on Friday.The devotees brought the idols of Ganesha in procession accompanied with the traditional drummers, shouting Ganpati Bappa Moriya in the main market and set them in the lower bazaar on Friday. A community worship was organised in Pauri that set an example of communal harmony for the second consecutive year. Notably, along the lower bazaar area several houses and shops of the Muslim
community are located.
The local fraternity of the jewelers led the puja with the cooperation of the residents of Pauri town in lower bazaar, a locality with high concentration of members of the Muslim community. The community worship was done in a shop of lower bazaar in the morning and in the evening in accompaniment of devotional songs.