Saturday, September 20, 2014

Viswakarma Puja from Kharagpur 2014




Viswakarma is god of machine, architecture, so this puja celebrated in every parts of our country. Kharagpur is a railway town so here Vishwakarma puja is celebrates with great enthuse. Main celebratation done in different railway department of Kharagpur, like: Railway workshop, Railway General store of kharagpur, R yard of Kharagpur, DRM office etc.


 Kharagpur railway station with decoration
 Kharagpur railway station with decoration
 Kharagpur Workshop
Other main attractions are Tata Bearing, Tata Metalik, Rashmi Industry, Biscuit factory of Kharagpur Malancha, Flender Factory of Kharagpur, Bengal Energy of Kharagpur.
 Railway model exhibition made by kharagpur railway running staffs
 Railway model exhibition made by kharagpur railway running staffs



 Decoration in Viswakarma Puja

Railway workshop, diesel shop is open for general public and staff family members. Hindu community who are iron smith and carpenter community are also celebrate this function on their home ,other people also clean there bike, car, cycle, Computer, machine ,tools and worship like god.


                                          
Different carpenters shop, gold, silver traders and different metal business related businessman also celebrate this puja.
 

As per tradition people fly kites in this day also decorate Viswakarma idol with kite.
Factories and production house totally stop their daily work for 24 hrs .Different cultural and musical program arrange in South Easter railway departments and other factories of town. Railway and other factories visarjan done on second or third day.

 Ramco Industry of Kharagpur
Tata Metalick Kharagpur

Only some problem arises with transportation as because bus, autos are few in road which create problem for students and daily passengers.
Decoration started from 16 September night , people cleans their shop, factory and decorate pandals . On 16 september when I was returning from Kolkata I was watching flowers sellers with huge lots of marrygold flowers in each stoppage after panskura, they were going to Macheda flowers market  to sell their flowers. Markets were filled with viswakarma idols, fruits and different decorative items.

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