In our village, the responsibility for the annual Durga Puja pandal rotates house by house, and I remember one year when the cloth for the idol's saree arrived torn — I sat up all night mending it with invisible stitches, just like I do for my daughter's old school uniforms. The trouble is, the family whose turn it is often cannot afford the materials, and the government gives no support for such things; a proper fund from the panchayat, calculated per household income, would make the tradition fair for everyone. Have you found a way in your town to share the cost so that the poorest household does not have to bear the heaviest burden?
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