Ganpati visarjan promises to be more eco-friendly

LUCKNOW: Several pandals of the city have planned for an environment-friendly end to the Ganesh festival.
The organisers of the pandal at Ramadheen Inter College have dug a pit at Agrasen Ghat in Daliganj to immerse their idol. Two other pandals, from Ganeshganj and Alambagh, will immerse their idols at the same place. While the pandal at the college has been doing so for three years, the other two would join in for the first time.
"If we have the biggest Ganpati, we make sure the immersion is done in a way that the city doesn't get polluted," said Bharat Bhushan, convenor of the pandal at Ramadheen college. The pandal will also immerse letters that devotees have written to the elephant God. "The letters collected over 10 days weigh over 40kg. They will all go into the pit with the idol," he said.
The Ganeshganj pandal is on the theme of water conservation. The 7-foot idol there would be immersed in a pit filled with water up to three feet.
The third pit at Agrasen Ghat would be for the 8-foot tall idol from the Alambagh pan dal. "We cannot pollute the river for the sake of tradition," said Anuj Mishra, convenor of the pandal.