Ten Durga idols of popular city pujas are being put up at an art gallery maintained by state-run Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority in Rabindra Sarobar area of the city.
The idols of last year's Durga Puja organised by 'Bhowanipore 75 Palli', 'Dum Dum Park' and 'Chetla Agrani' have already made their way to the renovated art gallery.
Seven Durga idols of this year, including those of 'Behala Friends Club' and 'Bakulbagan' were also being put up in the renovated enclosure, having modern lighting arrangements,
"This is aimed at giving an opportunity to those revellers who could not visit the popular pandals due to the surging crowd and give an idea about artistic representation of the deities to domestic and foreign tourists," a KMDA official told PTI Sunday.
'Bhowanipore 75 Pally' secretary Subir Das said, "We had the brief to showcase the most representative idol at the gallery and we chose our last year's idol made of mahogany wood which was given to the gallery days before this year's puja."
The KMDA official said the renovated gallery with the new idols will be thrown open to the public after Kali puja.
Renovation work for the gallery, a brainchild of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for preserving Durga idols, began in 2016.
It was opened in 2012 and started keeping some of the idols but due to maintenance issue, the KMDA decided to give it a facelift since 2016 at a cost of Rupees Two crore and the old idols were now being replaced with ten new ones, the official said.
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