KMC’s decision to lock up Rani Pokhari during Chhath disappoints worshippers

Organising committee blames the city for not providing space to celebrate the festival this year even though the reconstruction of the pond is over.

The Hindu festival of Chhath, observed mostly in Nepal’s Tarai region and in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, has now become popular in Kathmandu Valley as well, with many people from the Hill community also observing the festival of late.