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Digha Jagannath temple rolls out prasad for 1.4 crore Bengal families
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Kolkata: Three hundred kilograms of 'khoa,' a dry milk 'kheer' that is a key ingredient in sweets, was offered to Lord Jagannath at the temple in Digha before being dispatched to 23 districts in refrigerated vans on Monday.
This was part of the state govt's initiative to distribute the 'mahaprasad' among all residents of the state.
"By Tuesday, each district will receive 10kg of khoa. This will be divided so that each block gets an amount. This khoa will be mixed into more khoa at select local sweetshops to make peda that will then be distributed among people as mahaprasad by ration dealers," said Radharamn Das, the vice-president of Iskcon Kolkata, which is managing the temple operations.
There are 341 blocks in the state. The packets — each containing a 'peda', a 'gaja', and a photograph of the Jagannath temple — will be handed to 1.4 crore families.
The handover of 'mahaprasad' will begin on June 17 and be completed by June 27, the day of Rath Yatra. Around 10am on Monday, 300 kg of 'khoa' reached the Jagannath temple in Digha in a refrigerated van. There, it was received by around 60 'sadhus' chanting 'kirtans.'
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Thirty local women, dressed in saris with a red border worn during puja, carried the 'khoa' to the temple sanctum sanctorum, where priests offered them as bhog to the deities of Jagannath, Balaram, and Subhadra. Of the 23 large packets marked with the names of districts, the one for East Midnapore was handed over to the DM for distribution among BDOs. The remaining 22 district packets, along with seven others, were loaded onto the refrigerated van and dispatched to Kolkata around 11.30am.
"On the way, the packets will be distributed to the districts the van passes through: Hooghly and Howrah," said Das, reiterating that the initiative was taken byat the behest of the chief minister. Biswambhar Basu, general secretary of the All India Fair Price Shop Dealers' Federation, said Duare Ration would be used for prasad delivery from Monday to Friday. It will be available at ration shops during the weekend.
