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Viswakarma Puja
 Region
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Industrial Towns of Orissa
Falls On :
The Kanya Sankranti Day (September)
Important Places of Observance
:
Hirakud & Rourkela
Vishwakarma is recognized as the divine engineer since the Puranic age. As a mark of reverence He is still worshipped particularly by the engineering community.
The festival is observed on the "Kanya Sankranti Day", which follows the "Ganesh
Puja", in every industrialized towns of Orissa.
Towns like Hirakud and Rourkela present the grandest ceremony on the occasion depicting different fire works connected with modern technology.
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