On the 8th day of second fortnight of holy month of Hindu calendar Kartik, the denizens of Hazaribagh and adjoining areas assembled in Juljul village of Sitagarha Panchayat of Sadar block as per the decades old tradition of this place to say thank to mother cow for her obligations to the mankind.
With time the occasion has turned into a festive organisation which is called Gopastmi Fair. Kolkata Pinjarapole society runs a home for cows here. It was established in 1884 and since then with a little break during the peak of independence struggle, every year people assemble here to pay their respect to cow and used to feed them by their hand. About 33 hundred cows are here nowadays in this Gaushala spread in about 84 acres land.
The day started with arrival of some cows from the Gaushala in the town and their march the important areas of the town. After this symbolic start of Gopastmi at Juljul the main pujari of Radha-Krishna temple worshiped the cows and then the denizens started offering special feed to mother cow of the Gaushala.
MlA Manish Jaiswal, Ex-MP Mahavir lal Vishwakarma, Secretary Sumer Setti, fair organizer Dinesh Khandelwal, Rajkumar Tongia, Chandraprakash Jain, Dhirendra Jain, Murari Singh, Omprakash Gupta, Sradhanand Singh, Gangadhar Dubey, Chatu Mahto and many more distinguished denizens of Hazaribagh offered the special feed to cows to get their blessings.
At Juljul BSF and CRPF has made special arrangements for the entertainment, comfort and shopping for the people arrived here to pay their respect to mother cow. The organizers have arranged free of cost Khichdi Bhog Vitran program for the people and special vehicles to carry them from the town to Juljul and back free of cost.