Kathmandu, Nov. 2: Preparation for Chhath festival has been complete at Guheswori in Pashupati area with the conclusion of Tihar festival – the second grand festival of Nepali Hindus.
The Guheswori Chhath Pooja Committee has been erected bamboo and decoration.
He informed that 450 Chhath celebration sites were set up last year while this year it is to exceed to 656 sites. Out of the then, Chhath revelers have occupied more than 300 stalls.
Of late people from mountainous region have started offering worships to the sun on Chhath festival. Annually over 100,000 people have celebrated Chhath festival in Guheswori. Kathmanduties also have started celebrating the Chhat, the special festival of Terai, for over a decade.
Similarly, in Janakpur a sanitation campaign has taken place in temples and lakes in Janakpur under the joint aegis of federal Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai and State-2 Chief Minster Lalbabu Raut.
Prem Guragain, personal secretary of minister Bhattarai, shared that an all-side tea reception has been jointly hosted by the federal and state governments in course of the promotion of Chhath festival and Nepal Tourism Year-2020. This is so far the first of its kind campaign in State-2.