Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Lokesh Kumar Vs Mamidi Venumadhav & Others dated 16/09/2021. The matter related to immersion of Ganesh idol for the purposes of the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi in Hussain Sagar lake, Hyderabad, Telangana. The Solicitor General has said that immersion …
Raising concerns over the environment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged people to avoid using Ganesha idols made of Plaster of Paris (POP) during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Modi suggested that instead of POP idols, which after immersion cause damage to the aquatic life and environment, people should use …
Kolhapur:Police have decided to take stern action against Ganesh mandals using high-decibel sound systems to ensure a low-decibel festival this time. According to police officials, this will help in ensuring that no mandal uses such systems and that no owner of these systems will rent it to the mandals. Police …
Kolhapur: Vishwas Nangre-Patil, special inspector general of Kolhapur range, has said the Ganesh mandals can celebrate the upcoming festival with enthusiasm but urged them to stay away from high-decibel sound systems. He was speaking at a congregation of Ganesh mandals in the city held to discuss peaceful celebration of the …
Demanding a complete ban on idols made of plaster of Paris (PoP), a Pune-based student and activist has filed an application before the National Green Tribunal against the Maharashtra and Gujarat Pollution Control Board, stating that the material is insidious to the environment. The petition said that the respondents were …
KOLHAPUR: City police are not taking Ganesh mandals' word on curbing noise pollution. Cops have decided to meet major Ganesh mandals to convince them to keep the sound levels in check during the upcoming festival. While Ganesh mandals have assured the police of keeping the festival celebrations under control, senior …
Nagpur: The dissolved oxygen level at Telangkhedi lake is alarmingly low and will fall further post Ganesh immersion which might result in collapse of the entire lake ecology. This came to the fore during a pre-immersion water monitoring programme which was conducted by city-based Green Vigil Foundation in association with …
Court tells govt to educate students on noise rules to effectively deal with pollution The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the civic body to not allow pandals and mandaps on roads and footpaths as they disturb traffic flow and cause inconvenience to citizens. The order assumes significance in view …
Aurangabad: Showing the way to an eco-friendly Ganesh festival, students from Udhyan Shalini Fellowship School have pledged to install only clay idols at their homes. The students took the pledge while participating in an awareness campaign organised by Deepshikha Foundation, an NGO which works for environmental causes in the city, …
Police have already started initiating measures to ensure that the Ganesh festival will be celebrated without violating noise level norms. With the festival a month away, orders have been issued to all the police stations in the district to convene meetings of Ganesh mandal members and undertaking a written statement …
Goa Government today said it would form flying squads and keep an eagle eye on the state's borders to stop Plaster of Paris Ganesh idols from coming into the state for sale ahead of the Ganesh festival next month. "The ban on PoP idols in the state would be strictly …
The state government informed the Bombay High Court on Monday that this year, all police stations in Maharashtra will be equipped with decibel meters to keep a check on Ganpati pandals flouting noise pollution rules. Government pleader Abhinandan Vagyani told the court that an order to procure 1,843 decibel meters …
PUNE: The Pune police have filed cases of violating noise pollution norms against three Ganapati mandals and issued show-cause notices to 67 other mandals seeking an explanation as to why action should not be taken against them for not following the Supreme Court guidelines. Deputy commissioner of police (special branch) …
The deafening sound created by traditional instruments like dhol tasha and pakhwaj along with electronic music played on the last day of the Ganesh festival continues to cross permissible limits. Students of College of Engineering Pune (COEP), who conducted the annual monitoring exercise for the 14th year in succession, found …
This Ganesh Chaturthi, authorities made it sure that no idol made of plaster of Paris or other non-biodegradable substance were immersed in the Yamuna. On the Yamuna ghat in East Delhi, devotees with idols not meeting environment-friendly standards were allowed to do a symbolic immersion and then asked to deposit …
There has been a rise of 10 to 15 per cent in the number of registered and unregistered Ganesh mandals in four zones of the city, mainly due to rising political aspirations at the local level. The result is more noise pollution and clogging of roads. The police expect even …
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued show-cause notices to 52 Ganesh mandals for obstructing the traffic along major roads and causing sound pollution. The KMC has taken such an action for the first time after the Bombay high court (HC) directed all the civic bodies to regulate traffic flow …
Around 47 tonnes of dried flowers, leaves and decorative plants used during the last five days of the Ganpati festival have been collected from the Nirmalya bins set up at immersion ghats and all over the city by the civic authorities. The floral waste has been sent to TMC's waste …
The continuous barrage of loud music, dazzling light shows and bursting of fire crackers during the Ganeshotsav seem to be harming the health of Thaneites who have been complaining of sleep disorders. Doctors and child psychiatrists said there definitely was a link to suggest that the growing incidents of sleep …
Agra: Nearly 15 city based women's organizations have come together to call for 'festival celebrations without pollution'. Speaking to TOI activist Deepali Bansal said, "In every festival observed, there is some amount of pollution. Immersion of idols in the Yamuna is causing a huge problem." Through our collective appeal to …
The city was a mess on Monday morning, a day after thousands of people took out processions to immerse Ganesha idols in the sea, and left more than 50 tonnes of garbage in their wake on three beaches and roads leading to them. Officials of Corporation of Chennai and sanitation …
