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. 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. 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. Since huge crowd throng puja mandaps it would be an opportunity to spread awareness on harmful effect of polythene. All puja committees have decided to create awareness among the public on ‘say no to polythene’,” said secretary of Bhubaneswar Shanti Committee, Naba Kishore Behera.The puja committees have also decided that they will reduce noise pollution during the festival and make sure about use of alcohol during the immersion of idols.“In our next meeting we would discuss various problems of individual puja committees and try to resolve this with various government authorities. The shanti committee will try to help and support smaller puja pandals, which face various problems during the celebrations,” said Behera.Meanwhile, CP Satyajit Mohanty on Sunday held a meeting with officers of police stations and asked them to book notorious anti-socials under the national security act (NSA). All police stations have been asked to execute pending non-bailable warrants (NBWs) and arrest absconding offenders in several cases. Besides, cops have been asked to book habitual offenders under preventive section 110 of the code of criminal procedure (CrPC). Under 110 of CrPC, the police secure bond of good behaviour from habitual offenders, who would pledge not to indulge in any anti-social activities.

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