Pune Mayor Mohol Appeals People To Immerse Ganesh Idol At Home

Vivek Patil

Pune, 9th September 2021: A total of 200 MT of Ammonium Bicarbonate has been made available free of cost by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to all the Ward Offices for immersion of Shri Ganesh Idol at home. Considering the background of Corona infection, Bappa should be immersed at home, appealed Mayor Muralidhar Mohol.

Mayor Mohol made this appeal while giving information about the preparations made by the Municipal Corporation for the immersion of Ganesh idols. An average of 12-13 tons of ammonium bicarbonate has been distributed to the citizens through each ward office

Mohol said, “For this year’s Ganesh immersion, idol collection centres have been set up at 247 places under 15 ward offices. Also, for the citizens who are not able to immerse idols at home, more than one and a half hundred idol immersion vehicles have been provided by the PMC and people’s representatives.”

Last year, during Ganeshotsav, a total of 87 thousand 442 kg of Nirmalya was collected through Pune Municipal Corporation SWaCH Cooperative Society. “This year also Nirmalya collection has been arranged at all Ganesh idol collection centres. Nirmalya manure is produced and this manure is further used for municipal parks and given to the farmers free of cost. The eco-friendly incense is made from the flower buds, courtesy of Cummins India Company”, said Mohol.

He further added, “Last year, 82 thousand 551 idols were immersed in mobile tanks and 79 thousand 777 idols were collected at the collection centre. A total of 1 lakh 62 thousand 328 Ganesha idols immersions were done. Even this year, citizens should keep a separate collection of Nirmalya. All this Nirmalya will be collected by the waste pickers coming to your door or by the truck in addition to the wet and dry garbage in different bags. It will be collected on September 12, 15 and 20.”

Mayor Mohol has appealed that no one should throw the Nirmalya in the river.

“Nirmalya should include only garlands, leaves and flowers. It should not contain plastic, thermocol, textiles or images, idols or their remains as well as any food. The Nirmalya is collected and made into manure and given to the farmers, therefore, it is requested not to throw any object or other waste in the Nirmalya which would violate the sanctity of this Prasadik Nirmalya”, said Mayor Mohol.