SAMBALPUR : Artisans are working overtime in 64 mandaps across the city giving final touches to the puja pandals of Goddess Durga. Festive mood has already gripped the city with Shasthi rituals performed at several puja pandals on Friday.
Puja organisers of Budharaja here have roped in artisans from Digha in West Bengal for setting up the pandal replicating a mutt of Nepal with a width of 70 feet and height of 40 feet. About 2,000 pieces of bamboo, clothes and thermocol at an estimated cost of around Rs 6.5 lakh have been used.
Similarly, Dhanupali puja committee members, who have carved out a niche for themselves for their excellent lighting and pandal, have hired artisans from Panimora in Bargarh district to make a golden palace at an estimated cost of Rs 6.5 lakh.
The artisans have used golden coloured clothes and thermocol to make the palace with a width of 50 feet and height of 60 feet.Durga Puja at Gobindtola will complete 48 years this year and the organisers have engaged artisans from Jaraka to create an attractive palace at a cost of Rs 4.5 lakh. The artisans have used velvet clothes and steel to give shape to palace-like pandal with a width of 43 feet and height of 65 feet.
Similarly, artisans from Balangir, engaged by Sakhipada puja committee, have recreated a temple with a height of 40 feet.The pandal at Pattnaikpada has a backdrop of Konark temple. Hatpada has decorated the pandal using artificial flower of varied colours. The organisers of Daleipada are recreating NASA office building using bamboo, wooden board and thermocol at a meagre cost of Rs 30,000.
However, thrust as usual will be on the rituals and puja in temples of Samaleswari and Pataneswari in the city besides at Kalibadi, where puja is performed in traditional Bengali style.
ARTISANS are working overtime in 64 mandaps across the city giving final touches to the puja pandals of Goddess Durga. Festive mood has already gripped the city with Shasthi rituals performed at several puja pandals on Friday. Puja organisers of Budharaja here have roped in artisans from Digha in West Bengal for setting up the pandal replicating a mutt of Nepal with a width of 70 feet and height of 40 feet. About 2,000 pieces of bamboo, clothes and thermocol at an estimated cost of around Rs 6.5 lakh have been used.
Similarly, Dhanupali puja committee members, who have carved out a niche for themselves for their excellent lighting and pandal, have hired artisans from Panimora in Bargarh district to make a golden palace at an estimated cost of Rs 6.5 lakh.
The artisans have used golden coloured clothes and thermocol to make the palace with a width of 50 feet and height of 60 feet.Durga Puja at Gobindtola will complete 48 years this year and the organisers have engaged artisans from Jaraka to create an attractive palace at a cost of Rs 4.5 lakh. The artisans have used velvet clothes and steel to give shape to palace-like pandal with a width of 43 feet and height of 65 feet.
Similarly, artisans from Balangir, engaged by Sakhipada puja committee, have recreated a temple with a height of 40 feet.
The pandal at Pattnaikpada has a backdrop of Konark temple. Hatpada has decorated the pandal using artificial flower of varied colours. The organisers of Daleipada are recreating NASA office building using bamboo, wooden board and thermocol at a meagre cost of Rs 30,000.
However, thrust as usual will be on the rituals and puja in temples of Samaleswari and Pataneswari in the city besides at Kalibadi, where puja is performed in traditional Bengali style.