Durga Puja is the biggest festival in West Bengal where every pandal gets lakhs of visitors every single day. However, the festival also causes accessibility issues for many, including persons with disability, children, and women. This year, multiple pujas across the city have come up with several accessibility plans to makes the pandals more inclusive.

Many Durga Pujas have started ramps for wheelchairs, braille display, guided tours for persons with disability, and women specific gates for added security in the overflowing crowd.

India Autism Center, in collaboration with massArt, gave around 450 autistic individuals a tour of 24 pandals from September 18 to 22 before the overwhelming crowds and long queues started forming outside the pandals.

They were taken to some of the city’s mo

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