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Making alternate immersion plans, GHMC informs HC
The GHMC on Monday informed the High Court that it would be making arrangements for immersion of Ganesh idols in various tanks in and around Hyderabad.
​Hyderabad: The GHMC on Monday informed the High Court that it would be making arrangements for immersion of Ganesh idols in various tanks in and around Hyderabad.
The two-judge PIL bench of the High Court at Hyderabad comprising acting Chief Justice Dilip Bhosale and Justice AV Sesha Sai which took on file the statement of the GHMC had specifically pointed out how it was being done in places like Bengaluru where a portion of the lake is cordoned for the purpose.
P Keshav Rao, Counsel for the GHMC, pointed out that the process was already in place and contractors were identified.
The bench made clear that it was not making any order restricting the height of the idols and adjourned the matter by eight weeks.
Meanwhile, Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samithi clarified that they would take up the mass immersion programme in Tank Bund only. Samithi general secretary Bhagwanth Rao said that the Samithi was going ahead with its plans to immerse close to one lakh idols in Tank Bund.
He said that this was an attempt by some forces, and the people with communist ideology, who cannot digest the Hindu customs and want to destroy Hindu culture, were resorting to such arguments just before the festival.
Bhagwanth Rao said that as per 2001 judgement, Tank Bund is not polluted because of Ganesh idols. “The court has not asked the Samithi members to decrease the height nor it had asked to shift the venue. The court said it will not interfere in the religious issue.
The ‘Vinayak Sagar’ is a public property and immersion will take place at the same venue," said Rao. Samithi leaders questioned the ‘double standards’ of the environmentalists. “The pollution control board only knows to create problems and never bother to solve them.
The Vinayak Sagar was spread across 1,400 acres but now it is limited to 400 acres. Why it is like that, the government should think,” said Rao. Samithi leader Ravinutala Shashidhar said that the Samithi was ready to prove that the lake was not polluted.
