Mumbai : More than 34,000 Ganesh Idol including Goddess Gauri were immersed across the
city here yesterday on the last day of 10-day long festival celebration.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials said that a total of 34,452 idols of Lord
Ganesh and Goddess Gauri were immersed in the sea. For second consetutive year the festival was celebrated
under the shadow of Covid-19.
Three boys, who were swept away in the sea waters at Versova jetty in western suburb during the Ganesh
idol immersion, they are still missing, two others were successfully rescued, civic official said.
Otherwise, no other incidents were reported during the celebration, a day remain incident free.
A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said of the 34,452 idols immersed on Sunday, 13,442
were immersed in artificial lakes which were created across the city to avoid crowding at natural waterbodies.
Out of the total immersed idols, 5,043 were of ‘sarvajanik’ (public) mandals, 29,060 household Ganesh idols,
and 349 idols of Goddess Gauri.
Among the idols immersed in artificial lakes in Mumbai, 11,387 were household Ganpati idols, 1,890 of public
mandals and 165 of Goddess Gauri, the official said.
The famed idol of the ‘Lalbaug Cha Raja’ Ganesh mandal in the metropolis was immersed at Girgaon Chowpatty by around 1500 hrs an official earlier said.
The BMC also deployed 715 lifeguards at various natural and artificial immersion sites, he said.
Earlier, more than 41,000 idols were immersed in various water bodies in the city on the second day of the
festival, 66,000 on the fifth day and 15,000 on the seventh day.
The BMC had capped the height of household Ganesh idols to two feet and of public mandals to four feet,
sources added.
