AGARTALA, Feb 1 (TIWN): Keeping eye on the upcoming Saraswati Puja, artisan all across the State were observed busy in shaping up the Goddess Saraswati idol.

The festival of Saraswati Puja is one of the biggest festivals for Bengali community. Girls in Bengali saris take part with devotion and fervour in the festival.

However, most of the schools and colleges celebrate the puja with pomp and gaiety.

In educational institutions students place their books in front of idols of Goddess Saraswati to seek blessings for wisdom and success in studies.

In many pandals and educational institutions the students organizes competitions of devotional songs. The puja in various pandals goes on for the whole day during the festival along with cultural programmes.

Every year Saraswati Puja is performed on Vasant Panchami to worship Saraswati, goddess of learning and a mythological consort of Lord Brahma, according to the Hindu astrological calendar and religious beliefs. The goddess is personified as knowledge in its full grandeur.

This tradition, followed to date, sees many schools and colleges setting up a clay idol of the Goddess Saraswati and are embellished in attractive fashion to welcome the goddesses and show their allegiance.

The four hands of Goddess Saraswati depict four aspects of knowledge and values. The prose is represented by the book in one hand, poetry by the garland of crystal, and music by the veena and the pot of sacred water represents purity in all of these three.

However, institutions decorate and set up colourful pandals where devotees throng to offer their prayers and become a part of the celebration.