kolkata ninetyeightyearold parul rani bandyopadhyay had never experienced a jagaddhatri puja navami pushpanjali where she would have to place herself on the balcony and strain her ears for the mantras that a priest chanted on a loudspeaker but this is a covid year and she is in the precious category her grand and greatgrandchildren have been reminding her constantly refusing to take her to the pandal and placing her at a vantage point of the balcony on monday morning though she lives in hatkholanonetala just a stones throw from the famed chandernagore strand where for ages the immersion procession has happened in the evening she has been told that this too stands cancelled this year and the immersion will be a strictly guarded affair under the eyes of the police and district administration over the daylight hours of tuesday and wednesday on tuesday the immersions would start at noon and end by 315pm following a strict time table that has been shared with the respective puja organisers wednesday the immersions would be from 10am and will be over by noon there are 171 pujas in chandernagore and bhadreshwar of which 129 are in chandernagore and the immersion for the latter will be manned by hooghly police along with the chandernagore municipal corporation announcements have been already made by the wbsedcl about disruption of power supply during immersion of the idols following this time table on both the days since many of the idols are over 20 feet tall and might get entangled with the overhead wireswe have organised immersion at four designated ghats ranighat shibbati ghat mill ghat and debdedia ghat said swapan kundu administrator of the corporation the twodaylong daytime immersion has been organised because of the covid situation said police commissioner humayun kabir organisers have been told not to bring more than 15 members in a truck and no gathering will be allowed he saidmunna agarwal member board of administrators of the corporation stressed on the fact that each puja was sanitised everyday a pond like clearing has been made in the hooghly where the immersion would happen he added we have missed the grandeur of the jagaddhatri puja this time its an abnormal year and left its mark on our puja as well said arnava das an it professional in ward 24 gondalpara pushpanjali mantras were prerecorded and sent as audio clips to all households who are part of the whatsapp group formed by former councillor hiranmoy bandyopadhyay leaving everyone happy thanks to the audio clip i did not miss the anjali this time albeit from home said 74yearold ashutosh mukherjee