Jamshedpur: A day after the Jharkhand government revised guidelines for the Chhath festival, state health minister and Jamshedpur West MLA Banna Gupta chaired a meeting of the district administration here on Wednesday to take stock of the preparations at the ghats.
The minister said that the district authorities have been asked to complete the arrangements before the devotees visit the Chhath ghats to offer the first arghya to the Sun god on Friday.
Banna also urged the Chhath devotees to comply with the Covid-19 guidelines while offering prayers at the ghats.
DC Suraj Kumar issued orders to all the three civic bodies here — Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC), Mango Notified Area Committee (MNAC) and Jugsalai municipality — to clean up the ghats.
Meanwhile, the district administration also sought the cooperation of corporate houses to clean the ghats.
“The cleaning work is underway and the ghats will be ready in the next two days,” said the special officer of MNAC, Deepak Sahay.
There are 15 Chhath ghats on the banks of Subernarekha and Kharkhai rivers in the city, where devotees go in large numbers to offer prayers.
Notably, several Puja samitis had started cleaning up the ghats even before the state government revoked its ban on performing Chhath rituals at public water bodies.
“We had resolved to offer prayers at the ghats regardless of the government order,” a volunteer of Bhojpuri Navyuvak Manch said on the condition of anonymity.