Ahead of Durga Puja celebrations commencing from October first week, cleanliness near the pandal area has become the main focus of Ranchi Mahanagar Durga Puja Samiti members.
On September 16, they would be meeting Ranchi Municipal Corporation chief executive officer Dipankar Panda on deploying staffs to clean the mess.
“Most of the colonies where pandals are put up, are water-logged or dumped with wastes. So, we thought of beginning the initiative of Durga Puja with this cleaning concept,” said Ramesh Singh, a member of this samiti.
As many as 150-160 pandal committees are registered under this Samiti. like every year, this time also youth volunteers named as ‘Yuwa Dasta’ would be seen escorting the devotees within the pandals.
Former Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay who was present at this meeting of Ranchi Mahanagar Durga Puja Samiti members assured to provide essential help during the festive season.The registered pandal members would be submitting their necessities from the Samiti’s side by September 22.
Another Samiti member informed that they would meet the Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Gov\\ernor Syed Ahmed soon for a concrete support on behalf of administration. State Capital is witnessed by lakhs of devotees across the state especially in the last five days of Navratri.