CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur | Deoband, like every year, this year also a fair was organized at Sheetla Mata Mandir situated on Kuti Road on Saptami of Chaitra month. In which large number of women and devotees offered prasad, bowed their heads and prayed. There was a long queue of devotees to offer prasad at Sheetla Mata Mandir situated on Kuti Road. Especially mothers offered sweet puddings, fruits, flowers, water etc. in the temple and bowed their heads and also made their small children bow their heads at the temple of Mata and got the blessings of the mother. During this, mothers prayed to Sheetla Mata for the happiness and prosperity of their respective homes and the health of their children. The devotees who came to worship in the temple premises told that since ancient times, the elderly have been coming here to worship Mata Sheetla to save their children from the outbreak of smallpox, measles, etc. Wishes are fulfilled by worshipping Mata Sheetla and children remain safe from diseases. Apart from the prasad shops, there were shops of food items, children's games and toys in the fair. A bhandaar was also organized by the devotees in the temple premises.
Neeraj Garg Bhagat, the chief priest of Sheetla Mata Temple, told that after the month of Chaitra, due to the increasing effect of heat, many types of diseases spread. Devotees worship Mata Sheetla to save their children from the outbreak of diseases like smallpox, measles, etc.