The 10-day Ganesha festival, which began on September 13, ends with the immersion of idols.
Ganesha seems to face both ways with a perfect reflection as the 57-foot-tall idol popularly known as ‘Khairatabad Ganesh’ is immersed in Hyderabad.
Devotees carry huge idols of Lord Ganesha for immersion at Girgaum Chowpatty in Mumbai. Five persons were rescued from drowning during the immersion procession by the Mumbai fire brigade at Girgaum Chowpatty on Monday morning.
Crane workers helped in the immersion of idols In Hyderabad. A total of 74,000 idols were immersed in Hussain Sagar and other lakes in the city.
While public Ganesh mandals preferred to take their idols for immersion to sea shores or rivers, families immersed their smaller idols at homes in buckets of water in Maharashtra.
To avoid pollution of natural water bodies, many civic bodies had also set up artificial ponds for immersion in Maharashtra.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation alone cleared 5,790 tonnes of puja material and trash on the occasion. The picture here, shows a large number of devotees at the banks of River Krishna in Vijayawada.
Huge Ganesh idols being taken for immersion into the Arabian sea at Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai on September 23, 2018.
Large number of Ganesha idols seen floating at the Yamuna river as the Ganesh festival ended on September 24, 2018 in New Delhi.