NIP NGO – An Education & Cultural Centre for the Blind & other Differently Abled in collaboration with Forum for Durgotsab, Saini International School, Mamta Sumit Binani Foundation, Rotary Club of Calcutta Old City have come up with organizing awards for Puja committees who are taking an endeavor to make their Pandals friendly for Senior Citizens and the Disabled.

300 Durga Puja Committees will be participating in this initiative. They have also showcased the Onno Durga concept as an awareness campaign at Hazra Park Durgotsab, Kolkata.

The event was graced by Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, Minister of Agriculture, Govt of WB, Sayan Deb Chatterjee, Joint Secretary of Hazra Park Durgotsab Committee, Tapan Pattanayak, CEO of Saini Group, CS (Dr.) Adv. Mamta Binani, Chief Patron of NIP NGO & President of MSME Development Forum WB, Jewel Chowdhury, President Rotary Club Calcutta Old City, Debajyoti Roy, Secretary of NIP NGO and others.

Through this event, the organizers want to showcase the Visually Impaired Goddess Durga and Asur, Wheelchair bound Ganesh, Intellectual Disability Laxmi, Saraswati, and Kartik. The purpose is to acknowledge and show that disability is a special ability.

Priyanka Dutta