Kharna started regarding Chhath festival, devotees busy in making altars on the ghats, brightness increased in the markets also.

In Bastiurai/Jalaun district, devotees are fully engaged in the preparations for Chhath, the great festival of sun worship. Kharna Vrat started on Wednesday and devotees are busy making Bedis at various ghats in the district. Meanwhile, to take stock of the ongoing preparations at Amhatghat in the municipality area, Municipality Chairman Neha Verma inspected and also gave necessary directions to the personnel. On the Amhatghat coast of the city, people were busy making altars for Chhath Puja since morning. While the devotees were making their altars, they were also writing their names there so that they could get a place during the puja.

Bedi was being decorated with rangoli. Arrangements were being made by the municipality for street lighting and cleanliness at this place. Here every year thousands of fasting women worship Lord Bhaskar and pray for the welfare of the people along with their families.

When Suman Chaurasia, the fasting woman who was making altar at Amhatghat, was talked to, she told that this is her sixth year of Chhath fast. This year she is performing puja here. She told, 'Kharna has started, Nahay Khay was yesterday, today we have to kharna, and tomorrow evening we will offer water to the setting sun. From today I am fasting.
Municipality President Neha Verma expressed concern about the cleanliness system at the ghat. He said, there is a need to create awareness among the people regarding cleanliness. Cleaning is being done here, but some people keep dumping garbage etc. I have given instructions for better cleanliness at the ghat.

This year, on the occasion of Chhath Puja, the municipality is making full preparations for cleaning and other arrangements at all the ghats, so that devotees can participate in the puja without any hassle.