Chhath Puja: Surat civic body makes elaborate arrangements

In Surat, the Chhath Puja celebrations started connected Tuesday crossed 13 locations successful the city.

The Surat Municipal Corporation made arrangements for the devotees on the banks of Tapi stream and has besides acceptable up artificial ponds.

The civic assemblage has besides provided drinking h2o facilities for the visitors and barricaded the country to forestall stampede on with deployment of unit from occurrence and wellness departments, said sources.

Bihar Vikas Mandal, 1 of the oldest organisations which started the Chhath celebrations successful Surat, is spearheading the celebrations successful antithetic localities including Singhanpore, Jehangirpura, Dindoli, Amroli, Vadod, Sachin and Godadara.

Bihar Vikas Mandal President Prabhunath Prasad Yadav told The Indian Express: “The Chhath Puja holds large value among radical of Bihar and present it has extended to Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. The four-day festival volition culminate connected Friday.”

Sharing astir however the Chhath Puja celebrations started successful Surat, Yadav said, “In 1994, Surat City witnessed a pneumonic plague resulting successful respective deaths. Due to the disease, respective textile workers migrated to UP and Bihar. Many textile factories were unopen down and Surat faced large economical loss. It was the past BJP person and precocious national curate Kashiram Rana, who visited Bihar and Odisha among different states and requested radical to instrumentality to Surat for work. As the Chhath Puja dates were close, a fewer governmental leaders of Bihar advised Rana to marque arrangements for the solemnisation successful Surat. Following this, peculiar trains were tally from Bihar to Surat to bring backmost the textile workers.”  Yadav further said, “In 2017, BJP corporator and Bihar nonmigratory Girja Shanker Mishra requested the past politician to marque arrangements for the Chhath Puja successful the metropolis and later, a solution was passed successful this regard. Since then, SMC has been making arrangements for the Puja.”

The SMC has besides acceptable up artificial ponds successful Vesu and Godadara, helium added.

Special trains

Keeping successful caput the festive rush, the Western Railway started peculiar festival trains from Udhna railway presumption successful Surat to UP and Bihar.

According to the information from Western Railway, from October 16 to November 4, 2.44 lakh migrant workers near from the Udhna railway presumption for Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The Western Railways earned a gross of Rs 5.24 crore done summons sales.

At 25,039, the highest fig of passengers traveled from Udhna connected a azygous time connected November 3.

Chief nationalist relations serviceman Vineet Abhishek successful a connection said that to conscionable the question request this year, the Western Railway is moving astir 375 peculiar trains during the festive play to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha.

Additional coaches are besides being augmented successful regular trains arsenic per availability and demand.  On Wednesday, 18 peculiar trains were successful cognition portion connected Thursday, 14 specified trains volition beryllium run, said the statement.