Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allowed devotees to take mass bathing in various water bodies on the occasion of Chhath Puja in the city this year.
Reportedly, The BMC has made preparations for the Chhath Puja rituals in the city. BMC has cleaned the river banks and the water bodies for the devotees to observe Chhath rituals.
Chhath Puja is observed mainly by the people belonging to Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. The main ritual includes mass bathing and offering puja to the Sun God at river banks and ghats early in the morning.
Worth mentioning that many devotees were restricted to celebrate the festival properly along with other people for the last two years due to covid-19.