BELONIA, Sep 11 (TIWN): People where eagerly wait for the auspicious celebration of Durga Puja, on the other hand tension for the puja donations get mounted among the common people.

High demands of the Puja Committees from different clubs lead the common people to suffer. Decoration of Puja pandals means more important for the Puja Committee than the suffering of the poor people whose daily wages is not even enough for spending for two times of meal.

The decoration of Puja Pandal has become more important than the livelihood of the common people.  The clubs gets impulsive to grab the award of the award “Best-Puja” and rush to join the competition.

 Puja donation amount has no limits, alleged locals. The Puja Committee pen down whatever amount they decide, they don’t even think twice that will we be able to manage the amount or not.

Besides, another person mentioned that if they refuse to pay any donation to the club or pay less than they threaten then and to avoid any kind of untoward incident the locals somehow manages the amount.

All though Durga Puja brings communal harmony but due to this tradition of forced donation demand by clubs in the name of Puja pandals disrupts the peace among the people.

According to the police sources, a meeting already organized by District Administration for maintaining peace and harmony in coming Durga .

However, despite of several initiatives taken by the Authority, common people are being harassed in the name of Puja donation