AGARTALA, September 4 (TIWN): Nearly one and a half month left for the auspicious Durga Puja to begin, teaser and advertisements are already published in the newspapers. Besides, piles of bamboo poles are stacked up in various parks and clubs of the state.

Club Secretaries, artisans are in full swing with the preparation of the upcoming auspicious occasion of the Durga Puja.

This year the puja will be held from October 19 to 22. Besides, Mhalaya is on October 12.

Clubs like Bharat Ratna, Central Road Jubashanga, Shantigami, Ramthakur, Shangathi, Chittaranjan and many other clubs are all set with their budgets of lakhs to celebrate the festival with pomp and deity.

The artisans are busy to meet their dead line and most of the busy in decorating the idols and the pandals with colourful items.

Besides, rivalry between Durga Puja committees has already peaked; the clubs are also busy in displaying their best work and effort which would attract more devotees to their pandal.

Therefore, the effort can also make them win the best idol display or the pandal of the year.

Durga Puja, the ceremonial worship of the mother goddess, is one of the most important festivals of India.

Apart from being a religious festival for the Hindus, it is also an occasion for reunion and rejuvenation, and a celebration of traditional culture and customs.

While the rituals entails ten days of fast, feast and worship, the last four days, Saptami, Ashtami, Navami and Dashami are celebrated with much gaiety and grandeur in India and abroad, especially in Bengal, where the ten-armed goddess riding the lion is worshipped with great passion and devotion.