In Bariyarpur village of Mahagadhimai municipality in Bara district, the famous Gadhimai Mela, famous for animal and bird sacrifice, which takes place every five years in November, has increased.

The crowd of visitors for the sacrifices and Gadhimai darshan in the fair from Sunday, colorful decorations, various exhibitions, entertaining scenes of sports spectacles and trade have increased the excitement of the fair . The common people of this region celebrate this fair as a festival. The temple has started to fill up. The crowd has increased in the streets and fairs.

As the fame of Gadhimai is getting wider as visitors from all over the country who have faith in Shaktipeeth Gadhimai come to fill the fair, most of the schools in the district have been closed for five days from Friday at the request of the main management committee of the fair. Likewise, the Madhes state government has given a holiday across the state on Balika day. Rajkishore Sahni, the president of the teachers' union, said that the teaching of the school has been stopped so that it will be easy for the visitors to stay in the nearby schools. 

The houses of the surrounding villages and towns where the fair is held are full of guests. Those who come to fill the fair in public places have started to arrange accommodation . The main attraction of the fair is animal sacrifice. But some people also offer abeer, flower garlands, sweets and coconuts in the temple. 

The mela has been systematically prepared with electricity, hundreds of CCTV cameras, toilets, parking, drinking water, mobile ATMs, Wi-Fi around the temple, parking at all corners of the mela, traffic management, free health check-up camps, ambulances, guns and food for the convenience of the visitors. Spokesperson of the original committee Vijay Swarnakar said. 

Similarly, abattoir management, helipad and security arrangements have been made for Ranga sacrifice. "All the necessary preparations have been completed to make the fair grand and civilized," said Swarnakar, "the devotees who fulfill their vows have voluntarily offered some animal sacrifices and flower offerings." On Sunday, other animal sacrifices will be offered at the Saitpara temple Mula Pujari Mangal Chaudhary said . 

'Since the 10th generation, there is a tradition of holding a fair and sacrificing vows,' he said, 'There is a legend that Gadhimai appeared in a dream when our ancestors were in prison for murder charges, and after offering their prayers and sacrifices in the dream, Gadhimai was freed from prison after doing what Gadhimai said.'  ;

After burying the trishul at the Gadhimai site, he said, the practice of worship and sacrifice started from that time with the beginning of the fair. "The night before the date of the sacrifice, i.e. on Saturday night, we perform puja according to Tantric method and perform pancha sacrifice of human blood and five animals and birds," he said, "Then the sacrifice starts." Lakhs of pilgrims come to Gadhimai Mela from all over the country and from India's Punjab, Haryana, Vihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai, Delhi, West Bengal. 

 He said that the committee has given a license to kill 250 animals in a slaughterhouse spread over an area of ​​2 bighas for Ranga sacrifice. He said that journalists or anyone else will be allowed to take photos of the slaughterhouse. The wall of the abattoir is built 12 feet high . Last year around 10,000 roosters were sacrificed and countless goats, ducks and pigeons were sacrificed. 

Umesh Paswan of Bharat Vihar Bairgania said that the Indian Border Security Force is obstructing the bringing of vows to the border. He has already brought a lot of clothes a week ago and has settled in the fair . In his son's vow, he has also brought a goat and a goat. Many like him have already brought Ranga . 

strict security arrangements 

The local administration and the fair committee have banned flying unmanned drone cameras, taking pictures of the slaughterhouse, and displaying sharp weapons to the killers at the famous fair for animal sacrifice. "It has been stopped from the point of view of security so that there is no impact on the fair," said Vasant Adhikari, the chief district officer who is also the coordinator of the district security committee Traffic police have also been mobilized in the vicinity.

 Around 2,500 security personnel with plain clothes have been mobilized in the fair. In the past, there have been cases of open alcohol consumption and death of pilgrims due to cold, pickpocketing and sexual violence in the fair. "We are sensitive to the safety of pilgrims, security preparations have been made to meet the security challenges," District Police Office Chief SP Mahendra Khadka said.