With Diwali comes the excitement of a five-day long festive feeling. Days before its onset, market places can be seen decorated with beautiful flowers and colourful lights. Being the festival of colours, Pink City Jaipur sparkles with dazzling lights. Every year, thousands of people come from in and around the city to have a look at the mesmerizing palaces and market places which are decorated with chains of lights and tons of bulbs.
Keeping the Diwali spirit in mind, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje took an initiative to make this Diwali brighter by giving subside to market associations on electricity usage. As per the earlier records, the electricity rates during the Diwali increases one and a half folds for the commercial usage. Now, on Raje’s order, the state government agreed to charge the market places as per the set commercial rates with no surpluse increase.
Both the public and the business men are elated to have been spared the Diwali hike on electricity and hence, have been more gracious with the decorations. Every year the shops and the roads of the city are lighted with fairy lights and halogens along with miniature statues of the forts and palaces.
The decorations of the old city are most famous among Jaipurites. From Johari Bazaar to Chaura Rasta to Badi Chaupar, each and every road is decorated with umbrellas of fairy lights in various kind of patterns.
The cultural heritage of Jaipur city comes alive during Diwali when Jalmahal, Hawa Mahal and Sarga Suli are the main attractions during Diwali. This year, the decorations were done in the memory of the martyred soldiers. Albert Hall, Ajmeri Gate and Sarga Suli were decorated with tri colour lightings.
While many states are still struggling due to the increased rate, Jaipur is among the few privileged states which got the electricity subsidy during the busiest time of the year.
Other attractions to see this Diwali are Ganpati Plaza, World Trade Park, Jawahar Circle and the Old City.
