Assam Girl Makes Largest Durga Idol With Recycling Products, Creates Record

Assam Girl Makes Largest Durga Idol: People across the country are striving to lead a sustainable lifestyle by adopting practices like reusing and recycling of products. Pollabi Debroy of Karimganj district in Assam is one such woman who has used to the art of recycling products to make a six feet idol of Durga. With this feat, she has also registered her name in the International Book of Records for making the largest Durga idol made of recycling products.

Pollabi Debroy is an artiste and works as a teacher of a private school.

She has used plastic packets, spoons, aluminium sheets, cardboard, clay model etc to make the same. In an interview with local media, she said that she wants to utilise the waste materials for a good purpose adding that people generally do not pay attention to waste material. These can, however, be recycled and provide employment to a large number of people.

The deputy commissioner of Karimganj, Khargeswar Pegu congratulated her and handed over certificate and medal for her feat.

Last year, Surat based Dr Aditi Mittal was in news for her eco-friendly Ganesha idol that was made just with dry fruits. Her idea of blending creativity and sensitivity towards the environment through the eco-friendly designs of Lord Ganesha idols received a lot of praise. It is made with dry fruits like walnuts, peanuts, cashew nuts, pine nuts, and almonds. The idol is 20 inches high. The trunk of this Ganesha idol is made out of walnuts, its eyes have been made with cashew nuts while the elephant-ears of the idol are embedded with peanuts or groundnuts.

She had said that she was planning to distribute the the dry fruits used in making that idol among COVID-19 patients. Read more about her unique initiative. 

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