HYDERABAD: Failure of the town authorities to successfully talk the situation of synthetic immersion tanks and ponds resulted in 1000’s of individuals thronging the Hussainsagar for the immersion ritual on Sunday. The state of affairs may worsen as immersion day approaches on September 9, amid questions over how successfully the Supreme Courtroom ban is carried out.

A moveable immersion tank arrange subsequent to Prasad’s Imax by the GHMC attracted solely a handful of individuals. The GHMC sanitary incharge on the level, Vijay Kumar, stated, “We arrange the moveable pond three days in the past and idols under 5 ft could be immersed right here. The general public have no idea about this. Site visitors police have began diverting idols right here.”

Police officers from Saifabad stated that because it was the primary time that such a pond was arrange, individuals have been much less conscious of it. As per information, 28 individuals had visited the tank on Friday and 41 on Saturday.

Nevertheless, idol immersion preparations with cranes have been made at Folks’s Plaza and NTR Marg with pandals, cranes and barricades, and police personnel have been supervising the operations. The cranes stationed at NTR Marg and Folks’s Plaza weren’t but purposeful because the police awaited orders with regard to immersion.

G. Vishal Rao from Himayatnagar who had come for the immersion of his PoP idol at Folks’s Plaza stated, “We obtained to know in regards to the pond simply now. We don’t find out about a man-made pond nor did we see any boards directing the individuals there.”

There have been others who went to the lake as per custom. R. Raj, a resident of Malapally, who was at Hussainsagar to immerse his idol, stated, “I do know in regards to the moveable tank arrange close to our space however we most well-liked to come back right here identical to yearly.”

The factitious ponds of Jalavihar and Sanjeevaiah Park noticed immersions of idols above 10 ft alongside.

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