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  2. Asian Paints Sharad Shamman - Wikipedia

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    "Asian Paints Sharad Shamman" was started in 1985 as a means for awarding the best decorated puja pandal during Durga Puja in Kolkata.Sharad means "Autumn (as the festival takes place at that season)" and Shamman means "Award/Respect", and was sponsored by Asian Paints, hence the name Asian Paints Sharad Shamman.

  3. Chaltabagan Durga Puja - Wikipedia

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    as a small celebration in a shop [1] and has grown into one of Kolkata's largest & biggest Durga Puja celebrations, attended by celebrities, industrialists, politicians and foreign diplomats. [2] Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Pujo 2019. The Durga Puja is held near the intersection of Vivekananda Road and Amherst Street. [2]

  4. Durga Puja in Kolkata - Wikipedia

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    Dignitaries of Kolkata enjoying dance performance at Red road carnival. Durga Puja is mainly celebrated for 5 days - Shashti, Saptami, Ashtami, Navami and Vijaya Dashami. But the festive mood around Durga Puja in Kolkata starts before Shashti, mainly from Mahalaya. Durga Puja pandals are opened to the public from the day of Mahalaya.

  5. Durga Puja - Wikipedia

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    Two theme-based pandals in Kolkata. Months before the start of Durga Puja, youth members of the community collect funds and donations, engage priests and artisans, buy votive materials and help build pandal s centered around a theme, which has rose to prominence in recent years.

  6. Festivals in Kolkata - Wikipedia

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    The Kolkata International Book Fair or Kolkata Boi Mela is the world's largest non-trade annual book fair, as well as the largest book fair in Asia. Held on the Milan Mela ground near Science City on E.M. Bypass, this fair has over 600 stalls, selling over Rs.23,000,000 worth of books and attracting more than 2.5 million visitors annually.

  7. Navaratri - Wikipedia

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    Two Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata during Navaratri Navaratri is celebrated as the Durga Puja festival by Bengali Hindus , Assamese people , Bihari people , Tripuri people , Maithils , Nepalese people , Bhutanese people , Burmese people , Odia people as well as some minor tribal ethnicities in Bangladesh and India such as Santal people , Chakma ...

  8. Education in Kolkata - Wikipedia

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    Non-governmental school board 1958 Edexcel: International school board 1996 International Baccalaureate: International school board 1968 National Institute of Open Schooling: Central government administered open school board 1989 West Bengal Board of Madrasah Education: State government administered Islamic madrasah and school board 1927

  9. Department of School Education (West Bengal) - Wikipedia

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    The department is the nodal body which look after various aspects of school level educations for the state having specific tasks like text book selection, formation of board and councils (West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education), inspection, recruitment of teachers (Government)/ education staff, execution of projects, language policy and ...