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Ganesha Chaturthi was celebrated with pomp and fervour crossed the authorities connected Monday, arsenic radical flocked temples and installed idols with grandeur.
Sri Sathya Sai Ganapathy temple decorated with 50 lakhs coins and much than 1 crore currency notes connected the juncture of Ganesha Chaturthi festival astatine J.P. Nagar successful Bengaluru Monday. (PTI) A temple successful Bengaluru has been decorated with currency notes and coins worthy astir ₹3 crore. The Sri Sathya Ganapathy Temple successful Bengaluru’s JP Nagar has been known for their unsocial mode of decorating the temple during Ganesh Puja festivities each year.
This clip they decorated the temple utilizing hundreds of coins and currency notes ranging from ₹10, ₹20, ₹50 to ₹ 500 denominations. The temple utilized currency notes worthy ₹2.18 crore and coins worthy ₹70 lakh for decoration.
A squad of 150 individuals spent a month, meticulously executing the elaborate decoration, ensuring it was equipped with information measures including CCTV surveillance.
Mohan Raju, 1 of the trustees of the Trust, expressed his joyousness astatine the affirmative reception this unsocial show has received. “Every twelvemonth we observe Ganesha Chaturthi successful a unsocial way. Last twelvemonth besides we decorated the temple successful a peculiar style. This time, we decorated the full temple with clump of Indian currency notes by making garlands and ornaments for lord Ganesha. All are archetypal currency notes. Devotees are coming to person darshan since morning,” helium said.
In bid to guarantee creaseless Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations crossed the authorities capital, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has acceptable up adjacent to 418 mobile tankers for immersion of Ganesha idols. Another 39 kalyanis astatine water beds person been readied to person idols. The civic assemblage has besides established 63 single-window clearance stations to person and o.k. support for Ganesha pandals.
The BBMP has besides banned the merchantability and slaughter of nutrient contiguous arsenic the metropolis celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi. The BBMP’s carnal advisory committee has issued the guidelines to each nutrient store owners. The civic assemblage has besides warned not to cod wealth from radical forcefully for the intent of celebrations.
The request for clay idols has besides accrued with customers opting for eco-friendly options implicit plaster of paris (PoP) ones successful respective places. In Bengaluru, the BBMP has imposed a strict prohibition connected the merchantability and manufacture of idols that are made with PoP, chemic dyes and thermocol.
In Mandya, determination has been a immense request for Ganesha idols made from jaggery, vendors said. The idols scope from half-a-feet to 2 feet and are priced betwixt ₹ 500 to ₹2,000. Apart from Mandya, determination is besides request for idols made from jaggery successful Davanagere, Mysuru, Hassan, Chamarajanagar, Tumakuru and Chikkamagaluru.
“There is simply a request for Ganesha idols crossed the state. We are making arsenic galore arsenic imaginable owed to shortage of molds. Last year, we made lone 500 idols. This time, we purpose to merchantability 1,500 idols,” president of Mandya jaggery farmers producers company, Karasavadi Mahadeva, said.
In Mysuru, peculiar puja was performed to the 9 Dasara elephants camped astatine the Mysore Palace, connected the juncture of Ganesh Chaturthi. The elephants were decorated and fed a assortment of foods.
In a show of communal harmony successful Belagavi, the Muslim assemblage has postponed Eid Milad to marque mode for the Ganesh procession. Muslims, on with the Anjuman-e-Islam, has decided to observe Eid Milad connected October 1, alternatively of September 28, which coincides with the 10th time of Ganesh Chaturthi procession.
Raju Seth, President of Anjuman-e-Islam and MLA from Belagavi North constituency said, “Eid Milad has been postponed to convey a affirmative connection to the society. We volition actively enactment successful the Ganesh Chaturthi processions and widen invitation to the members of the Hindu assemblage to articulation our festival.”
Meanwhile, pro-Hindu organisation Hindu Janajagruti Samiti connected Monday initiated a campaign, urging members of the Hindu assemblage to boycott Halal products during the festival successful Bengaluru. The volunteers of the organisation adopted a door-to-door run and besides distributed pamphlets.
