WEB DESK
After eight months of being shut, prominent religious places across Maharashtra opened on Monday, with just a few managing to follow norms, while crowds surged in others.
In Maharashtra, devotees are seen queuing up outside the religious places and places of worship with the opening of these places after a long break of almost eight months.
But due to the proper arrangements made by the authorities of these religious places and great sense of discipline shown by the devotees is making it possible to avoid crowding and seek the blessings of the deities on the very first day of the opening.
As the famous temples like Sai Baba temple at Shirdi, Vitthal Mandir of Pandharpur, Tulja Bhavani temple and famous religious places like Shri Siddhivinayak temple, Mahalaxmi and Mumbadevi temple, Haji Ali Dargah, Mahim Church in Mumbai were opened today, the devotees who visited these places shown a great sense of responsibility.
The devotees are following all the guidelines, they are using masks, using sanitizers, maintaining safe distance and not showing undue enthusiasm to avoid crowding. It has become possible due to the proper planning and arrangements done by the authorities of these religious places.
They have underlined the fact that overcrowding can be avoided and devotees can get the most comfortable entry inside the religious places and seek the blessing peacefully maintaining safe distance and discipline.
The Mahim dargah was among the first Muslim religious places to open in Mumbai, at the stroke of midnight. The dargah saw a crush from midnight itself. Trustee Suhail Khandwani, however, said that provisions have been made to restrict entry, “We will allow only 20-25 people at a time, and they cannot wait inside beyond 5-7 minutes. We have places sanitisers and our dargah trust members will work in shifts to ensure social distancing,” he opined. At Haji Ali, there was a slow trickle of devotees in the morning, “We are grateful the dargah has opened after this long.”