Ganesh festival
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) held a workshop for volunteers of Mumbai’s Ganesh mandals ahead of the Ganesha festival starting from September 19. The workshop is to be held at a civic school at Worli Sea Face. During the workshop, round 250 volunteers will be briefed about crowd management, first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), etc. [...] Continue Reading »
Competing with each other in setting up colourful pandals and necessary paraphernalia to make the Ganesh festival a grand one, various youth and welfare organisations in Hyderabad were putting in extra efforts. Stalls offering different types of Ganesh idols at Narayanguda, S.R.Nagar, Koti, Monda Market, Secunderabad and Dhoolpet were teeming with customers. With costs of [...] Continue Reading »
The firing at Delhi’s Jama Masjid and a high alert in Mumbai has added to the woes of vehicle owners in the city. Following an emergency meeting on Sunday, Mumbai Traffic Police has ordered no-parking of vehicles within hundred meters of all major Ganpati pandals and two hundred meters of Lalbaugcha Raja. This will be [...] Continue Reading »
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has framed guidelines which will be distributed to the public. The State Government has appealed to the people to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi in an eco-friendly way by opting for unpainted idols. Police commissioner Shankar Bidari said it is mandatory for all organizers of Ganesh functions in public places to [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is maintaining an e-database of all the Ganesh mandals to simplify the permission procedure.The e-database includes name of the mandal, location, size and permission period among other details. Electronic database of the Ganesh mandals simplifies the permission procedure and helps to book those mandals that flout norms. The Ganesh festival begins [...] Continue Reading »
