KATHMANDU: Dashain celebrating has escalated across Nepal on Sunday on the seventh day of the ten day festival.  Fulpati an assortment of flowers, leaves and fruits of different plants considered auspicious, is anointed at the Dashaighar in Kathmandu and taken home by people.

The Fulpati is brought to Kathmandu as per the Vedic rites to be anointed at the Dashaighar at the Hanumandhoka Durbar. The Gurujyuko Platoon, the Nepal army, Nepal police, and high ranking officials of Armed Police and civil service, the Asha Gurja team, band music, and panchebaja bands and decorated kalsyoulis, and a procession along with cultural pageantry leave Hanuman Dhoka for Jamal with the Fulpati.

Though Dashain festival begins from Ghatasthapana, the festival sees special fervor from the day of Fulpati.

All government as well as private offices close from today encouraging people to go back to their ancestral homes and take blessings from Durga Bhawani as well as their elders. RSS

KATHMANDU: Majority of the Government offices here are without their Chiefs, long before the Bada Dashain festival holidays have begun.

The Office Chiefs have reportedly left for their respective homes to celebrate the upcoming Dashain festival, leaving the service recipients deprived of their services.

The District Development Committee, Dhangadi Municipality, the Survey Office, District Public Health Office, Underground Water Resource Development Committee and others that are directly concerned with the people are presently running without their respective boss. Majority of the bosses left even before Ghatasthapana on October 16, sources said.

Due to absence of the Office chiefs the service recipients are returning empty handed from the public offices, said Lekh Raj Ojha of Beladevipur, Kailali.

Accepting the fact that majority of the offices in the district headquarters are sans their heads, Officiating Chief District Officer Bhavadev Badu said some of the Office Chiefs have left for home on leave while some have gone on a deputation.

As per the rule, the Office Chiefs need to take approval of the CDO to leave the district but majority of them have flouted the rule.

Only around five of them sought my permission before going for leave, Badu said. RSS