Chaltabagan Durga Puja

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The '''Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja ''' is a [[Durga Puja]] celebration in [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. It was founded in 1943 by Late Shree Lakhi Chand Jaiswal[[File:Sequence 01 copy.jpg|thumb|Shree Lakhi Chand Jaiswal]] as a small celebration in a shop<ref name="Wala Unveils">{{cite news |url=http://www.newswala.com/India-National-News/Debasree-Roy-unveils-Durga-puja-show-16313.html |title=Debasree Roy unveils Durga puja show |date=September 3, 2012 |newspaper=NewsWala |access-date=August 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903135617/http://www.newswala.com/India-National-News/Debasree-Roy-unveils-Durga-puja-show-16313.html |archive-date=September 3, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and has grown into one of Kolkata's largest & biggest Durga Puja celebrations, attended by celebrities, industrialists,politicians and foreign diplomats.<ref name="ToI Glass">{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Dream-in-glass-at-Chaltabagan/articleshow/9989179.cms |date=September 15, 2011 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |title=Dream in glass at Chaltabagan |first=Sumati |last=Yengkhom}}</ref>

[[File:Chalta Bagan Durga Puja 2019.jpg|thumb|Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Pujo 2019]]

The Durga Puja is held near the intersection of [[Vivekananda Road]] and [[Amherst Street (Kolkata)|Amherst Street]].<ref name="ToI Glass" /> [[Environmentalism]] is a common theme of the Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja, which used a [[windmill]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1131010/jsp/calcutta/story_17442475.jsp#.VAN6QmNagmV |title=Gen Y plays judge on pandal tour |date=October 10, 2013 |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]]}}</ref> and [[solar panel]]s to power the lighting.<ref name="ToI Glass" />

The committee organizing the Durga Puja is headed by President Late Lakhi Chand Jaiswal and Chairman Sandeep Bhutoria.<ref name="Wala Unveils" /> It has supported various charitable causes, including a donation of {{INR}}50,000 to disaster relief for victims of [[Cyclone Aila]] in 2009<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090924/jsp/calcutta/story_11534774.jsp |title=Puja pick of right spirit |date=September 24, 2009 |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]]}}</ref> and {{INR}}100,000 towards the relief fund of [[Governor of West Bengal]] [[M. K. Narayanan]] in 2010.<ref name="Telegraph Potpourri">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1121019/jsp/entertainment/story_16106433.jsp#.VAN6PGNagmV |title=Potpourri |date=October 19, 2012 |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]]}}</ref>

The Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja has won the [[Asian Paints Sharad Shamman]] award for Best Puja in 1997 and for Best Artisan (Nepal Pal and Gouranga Pal) in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://asianpaints.com/25yearsAPSS/last_years.html|title= All winners list|work=[[Asian Paints]]|accessdate=2009-09-29| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20091003123908/http://asianpaints.com/25yearsAPSS/last_years.html| archivedate= 3 October 2009}}</ref> In 2010 it was introduced into the True Spirit Puja Hall of Fame.<ref name="Telegraph Potpourri" />

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File:মানিকতলা চালতাবাগান দূর্গা পূজা ২০১৭.jpg|2017
File:চালতাবাগান দূর্গা পূজা ২০১৮.jpg|2018
File:চালতাবাগান দূর্গা পুজো ২০১৮ মণ্ডপসজ্জা.jpg|2018
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== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://manicktallachaltabaganlohapattydurgapuja.com/Default.aspx Committee website]

[[Category:Durga Puja]]
[[Category:1943 establishments in India]]

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