The Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja is a

Durga Puja Durga Puja ( bn, দুর্গা পূজা), also known as Durgotsava or Sharodotsava, is an annual Hindu festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga and is also celebrated ...

celebration in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. It was founded in 1943 by Late Sri Lakhi Chand Jayaswal Sequence 01 copy

as a small celebration in a shop and has grown into one of Kolkata's largest & biggest Durga Puja celebrations, attended by celebrities, industrialists, politicians and foreign diplomats. Chalta Bagan Durga Puja 2019

The Durga Puja is held near the intersection of

Vivekananda Road Vivekananda Road is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Indian city of Kolkata and connects Maniktala with Jorasanko. West of Maniktala Police Station, Maniktala Main Road becomes Vivekananda Road. It becomes Kali Krishna Tagore Street a ...

and Amherst Street.

Environmentalism Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks ...

is a common theme of the Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja, which used a

windmill A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications, in some ...

and solar panels to power the lighting. The committee organizing the Durga Puja is headed by President Late Lakhi Chand Jaiswal and Chairman Sandeep Bhutoria. It has supported various charitable causes, including a donation of 50,000 to disaster relief for victims of

Cyclone Aila Severe Cyclonic Storm Aila (JTWC designation: 02B) was the second named tropical cyclone of the 2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. Warned by both the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center (RMSC) and Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) ...

in 2009 and 100,000 towards the relief fund of

Governor of West Bengal The Governor of West Bengal is the nominal head of state of the Indian state of West Bengal and a representative of the President of India. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years. His official residence is the Raj ...

M. K. Narayanan Mayankodu Kelath Narayanan (born 10 March 1934) is a former Indian Police Service officer. He was National Security Adviser of India from 2005 to 2010, assuming the role after the demise of his predecessor Jyotindra Nath Dixit in January 2005. ...

in 2010. 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. In 2010 it was introduced into the True Spirit Puja Hall of Fame. File:মানিকতলা চালতাবাগান দূর্গা পূজা ২০১৬.jpg, 2016 File:মানিকতলা চালতাবাগান দূর্গা পূজা ২০১৭.jpg, 2017 File:চালতাবাগান দূর্গা পূজা ২০১৮.jpg, 2018 File:চালতাবাগান দূর্গা পুজো ২০১৮ মণ্ডপসজ্জা.jpg, 2018

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External links

Committee website
Durga Puja 1943 establishments in India