BENGALURU: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) chief commissioner Gaurav Gupta late on Thursday revised the existing guidelines to celebrate Durga Puja across the city.
After holding discussions and ironing out a few issues with the Durga Puja associations, senior government officials and BBMP officials revised the guidelines. The new rules are:
- The restriction of installing Durga Idols of only 4 feet and not above it, is removed.
- During the Pushpanjali and Sandhi puja time, one has to follow all Covid-19 Appropriate Behaviour and allow only 50 people at a time. There is no restriction on the total number of batches.
- If required, to have more than one idol installation in the ward, the organisers have to seek permission from the Joint Commissioner BBMP and Police to install the idols.
- During the prayer rituals, musical instruments like drums are allowed.
- The rest of the restrictions have to be followed as it is by the previous orders issued by the government.