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BHUBANESWAR: With less than a month left for Durga Puja community puja pandals as well as authorities in the city have started preparations for the major festival. The puja committees unanimously decided to create awareness on ‘say no to polythene’ in their mandaps.“Our main objective is to make Durga Puja celebrations peaceful and safe without any disturbances. Members of many small and big community puja pandals have assembled during the Shanti Committee meeting here on Sunday and discussed various issues to make puja celebrations safe and peaceful. Since huge crowd throng puja mandaps it would be an opportunity to spread awareness on harmful effect of polythene. Besides, cops have been asked to book habitual offenders under preventive section 110 of the code of criminal procedure (CrPC)..