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Mahalaya marks the formal initiation of the puja festivities. It is considered to be the day when goddess Durga is believed to have descended to the earth. On Mahalaya Bengalies take a holy dip in the river ganges and perform the tarpan whereby they offer food and water to their ancestors and recite hymns from the scriptures known as "chandipath".

Various social welfare programmes are under taken during the pre-puja days such as blood donation camps, distribution of clothes to poor children, donations to the public welfare organisations, grants to the patients fighting for their lives against fatal diseases etc.Illuminated models and gates, automatic lights with a record of the chanting of mantras playing in the back ground and groups of band parties and "Dhakis" with people dancing around them to the rhythmic beating of drums. Thousands of people throng the road side to have a clear view of the deity from close at hand and entertain themselves by the innovative animated illuminations and other such attractions.

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