THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, October 23: Medininagar Municipal Corporation (MMC) is to temporarily set up a fleet of around 30 changing huts for women devotees of Chhath Puja.
These changing huts will have privacy and peace while changing wet clothes for the dry ones.
Md Jawed Hussain, who is the Deputy Development Commissioner (DDC) but also holds charge of the City Commissioner of MMC, told this correspondent, “Our changing rooms will be an oasis of privacy and peace. Women devotees of Chhath Puja will be free to change their attire.”
These changing huts will be right from the ghats at the Amanat river down to the core ghats of the corporation within the limits of this corporation.
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Jawed, popular by his first name further said, “We have a Chhath ghat quite inside the river Koyel here. Here, our team is readying a makeshift bamboo bridge for the devotees. This bamboo bridge will be strong and durable.”
On the issue of non-functional street lights, the City Commissioner said, “Such non-functional street lights are being made functional.” He has sought cooperation of all sections of people in this great Lok Parv.
However, municipal corporation officials have to put in extra labour and pain to contain the ‘roaming around of pigs’.
There are around 50 to 60 pigs alone in the Nawa Toli slum bastees and their favourite pasture is staircases of pucca ghats where they snot to trace any food for them.
Pigs are in good numbers in the Sewa Sadan locality too and also at Sahitya Samaj Chowk.
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Pigs are to be contained in their respective pigsty or hog house by their owners right now, the day of Nahay Khaay
Back in the eighties, pigs loitering at ghats had triggered a very ugly situation when some upper caste people had harmed one or two such vagabond pigs, leading to a fierce protest from those who rear it.
