HYDERABAD: To discourage individuals from immersing idols in lakes, the Larger Hyderabad Municipal Company has provide you with a singular initiative of offering transportable water tanks and likewise to dig up ponds for the immersion of Ganesh idols

The choice was made in compliance with the Supreme Court docket’s directive prohibiting the immersion of idols product of plaster of Paris (PoP) within the Hussainsagar.

Accordingly, transportable tanks, which might price Rs 3 crore, could be erected at 24 areas within the metropolis. A GHMC official said that every excavation pond would price `3 lakh, whereas every child pond’s maintenance would price Rs 3 lakh.

To cut back the pressure on Hussainsagar lake, there could be a rise within the variety of immersion areas from the present 28 to 74. Additional, 28 small ponds the place idols taller than six ft might be immersed have been recognized, the GHMC official said.

Twenty-two momentary excavation ponds for idol immersion will likely be dug up in varied areas all through the town, together with the Secunderabad, Charminar and Khairatabad zones. These ponds may very well be crammed up after use, in contrast to the standard synthetic ponds which needed to be constructed by digging a gap near lakes.

After the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations, the GHMC official informed Deccan Chronicle that the transportable tanks is likely to be disassembled after which reassembled for varied functions. The workers of the civic physique will likely be answerable for these cellular ponds, serving to with the immersion of the idols in addition to sorting and eradicating the puja paraphernalia that go along with the idols.

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