Ban on smoking enforced in Kamakhya Temple on Ambubachi fair

June 22, 2015 19:11

Devotees coming to worship at the famous Kamakhya Temple during the annual Ambubachi Fair are inviting trouble if they dare to smoke tobacco openly within the temple premises as they used to do in the past.

The district nodal officer on tobacco control has launched a special drive for the first time to enforce the act that bars smoking of tobacco and other items in public.

Enforcement of ban on smoking was set in motion on Monday in presence of thousands of devotees, mostly sadhus and sanyasis.

Rampant and unrelenting smoking by a particular section of devotees creates public nuisance during every Ambubachi fair and they try to pass it on as related to their religious.

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