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CHATTOGRAM, Sept 27, 2025 (BSS) - Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Mayor Dr. Shahadat Hossain today distributed cheques of the grants allocated for all puja mandaps being set up throughout the city to celebrate Duga Puja, the biggest festival of country's Hindu community.
Speaking at the cheque hand-over function at Public Library conference room in the city's Laldighi area, the Mayor expressed his commitment to build Chattogram a city of harmony.
CCC provided Tk 5 lakhs to central Puja Mandap at J M Sen Hall premises, the central pavilion of Durga Puja here while Tk five thousands to 269 puja mandaps each, according to a CCC handout.
Presidents and secretaries of the respected puja mandaps received the cheques.
City Mayor said CCC has been monitoring the situation constantly and providing all out support to ensure peaceful and joyous celebration of the festival.
"We want to prove again that we believe in equal rights of all religions , caste and creed and sincerely wish to develop a society with love, harmony and peaceful co-existence" he said.
He called upon all devotes to keep the puja mandap areas clean and throw the garbage on designated dustbins after completion of worships so that files of waste can't cause waterlogging in the city.
CCC Secretary Ashraful Amin, former Councilor Md Ismail Bali, Social Welfare and Cultural Officer Mamunur Rashid, CCC Puja Celebration Committee President Ashutosh Dey and General Secretary Somnath Das Raju, among others, addressed the function.
