Chaltabagan Durga Puja
The Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja is a Durga Puja celebration in Kolkata, India. It was founded in 1943 as a small celebration in a shop[1] and has grown into one of Kolkata's largest 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.[2] Environmentalism is a common theme of the Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja, which used a windmill[3] and solar panels to power the lighting.[2]
The committee organizing the Durga Puja is headed by president Lakhichand Jaiswal and chairman Sundeep Bhutoria.[1] 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.[5]
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- ^ "All winners list". Asian Paints. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-29.