Weeklong Kharchi festival witnessed huge number of pilgrims since today morning . Yesterday closing . Today also good number of devotees gathered in the temple complex, but intermittent rain disturbed regular movement of devotees. lakhs of devotees from different parts of the state as well as other parts of the country gathered at Chaturdash Devata Mandir complex in Khayerpur amidst tight security. Since Sunday morning, the local administration has carried out search operations in all food and snack item shops against stale and rotten foods and strict directives were also issued and all food shop owners were warned not to serve any rotten foods to the devotees, said the official. Administration also carried out anti-plastic operations in entire fair complex and requested all shop owners not to use any plastic bags. Seeing massive gathering, the administration is now contemplating to install more CCTV cameras in entire fair complex. Earlier, state police had installed 24 CCTV cameras and watch tower in the festival premises. However, local trader said since the inauguration of weeklong festival on Friday last, only on Sunday good business recorded as maximum number of devotees thronged the festival complex. This year the festival committee also distributed free food for about 200 monks, gathered in the temple premises from different parts of the country.
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