Number of Chhath Devotees Increases in Kathmandu

Kathmandu. The number of Chhath devotees is increasing every year in the capital city Kathmandu. Devotees are busy finding places at the Chhath ghats in the capital for the Chhath festival, which is celebrated with devotion to Lord Surya and rivers. Chhath festival is celebrated grandly in about a dozen and a half places in the capital.

The number of people celebrating the festival of Surya Dev's worship, adoration, and puja, celebrated from Kartik Shukla Chaturthi to Saptami, in the capital itself is increasing every year, according to the Chhath Puja Committee Guhyeshwori. This year, 600 Chhath ghats have been arranged on the banks of the Bagmati river from Gaurighat to Guhyeshwori, informed committee chairman Anil Singh. In previous years, 550 Chhath ghats were constructed here. He said that all the constructed Chhath ghats were 'booked' before Bhai Tika.