Chaltabagan Durga Puja Explained

The Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja is a Durga Puja celebration in Kolkata, India. It was founded in 1943 by Late Sri Lakhi Chand Jayaswal as a small celebration in a shop[1] and has grown into one of Kolkata's largest & biggest Durga Puja celebrations, attended by celebrities, industrialists, politicians and foreign diplomats.[2]

The Durga Puja is held near the intersection of Vivekananda Road and Amherst Street. Environmentalism is a common theme of the Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja, which used a windmill[3] and solar panels to power the lighting.

The committee organizing the Durga Puja is headed by President Late Lakhi Chand Jaiswal and Chairman Sandeep Bhutoria. It has supported various charitable causes, including a donation of 50,000 to disaster relief for victims of Cyclone Aila in 2009[4] and 100,000 towards the relief fund of Governor of West Bengal M. K. Narayanan in 2010.[5]

The Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja has won the Asian Paints Sharad Shamman award for Best Puja in 1997 and for Best Artisan (Nepal Pal and Gouranga Pal) in 2002.[6] In 2010 it was introduced into the True Spirit Puja Hall of Fame.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Debasree Roy unveils Durga puja show . September 3, 2012 . NewsWala . August 31, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140903135617/http://www.newswala.com/India-National-News/Debasree-Roy-unveils-Durga-puja-show-16313.html . September 3, 2014 . dead .
  2. News: Dream in glass at Chaltabagan . September 15, 2011 . . Sumati . Yengkhom.
  3. News: Gen Y plays judge on pandal tour . https://archive.today/20140831211045/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1131010/jsp/calcutta/story_17442475.jsp%23.VAN6QmNagmV . dead . August 31, 2014 . October 10, 2013 . The Telegraph.
  4. News: Puja pick of right spirit . https://archive.today/20140831211039/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090924/jsp/calcutta/story_11534774.jsp . dead . August 31, 2014 . September 24, 2009 . The Telegraph.
  5. News: Potpourri . https://archive.today/20140831211042/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1121019/jsp/entertainment/story_16106433.jsp%23.VAN6PGNagmV . dead . August 31, 2014 . October 19, 2012 . The Telegraph.
  6. Web site: All winners list. Asian Paints. 2009-09-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20091003123908/http://asianpaints.com/25yearsAPSS/last_years.html. 3 October 2009.

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