Rani Laxmibai Durga Utsav Mandal to Celebrate Navratri

JAI MATA DI

We, the members of Rani Laxmibai Durga Utsav Mandal, have been successfully organizing the Navratri festival since the last 19 years with massive participation of citizens, not only from Nagpur, but entire Vidarbha. Every year, we host a slew of socio-cultural programmes depicting issues like India’s freedom struggle, illiteracy, autism, and child labour among others.

A galaxy of dignitaries visited our mandal and appreciated the decoration and our socio-cultural programmes. They included noted yesteryear actress Asha Parekh, union minister for road transport Nitin Gadkari, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, former Rajya Sabha MPs -- Ajay Sancheti and Vijay Darda and others.

Starting from scratch in 2006, this mandal has grown over the years to become only in entire Central India to host the Navratri Festival with a variety of socio-cultural programmes that had guaranteed footfalls of over 50,000 visitors per day. A dedicated team of about 50 youngsters and elders, which is a right combination of youthful exuberance and experience, work together round ‘o’ clock to make this event a mega success. News clippings in various newspapers speak about our work. We take the distinction of being the first Mandal in Vidarbha to have its dedicated website – www.laxminagardurga.in and also have pages on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and others.

The mandal also conducts a lot of social activities throughout the year like visiting ‘Matoshree Old Age Home’ near Adasa and helping them with medicines and food grains, visiting orphanages and helping the children with books and study material, and setting up artificial tanks on Laxmi Nagar volleyball grounds for immersion of Ganesh Idols to save the precious water bodies from getting polluted every year.

This year we will be depicting a theme -- 'Wheels of Divine Light'. Mandal president Prasanna Mohile will brief the media on the theme of this year’s festival. We also request you to visit the pandal with your family and friends and help us to make it successful like all previous years.