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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | After Durga Puja immersion in Delhi, this is what Yamuna looks like -A Mariyam Alavi

After Durga Puja immersion in Delhi, this is what Yamuna looks like -A Mariyam Alavi

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published Published on Oct 2, 2017   modified Modified on Oct 2, 2017
-Hindustan Times

With nearly 200 Durga Puja pandals immersing idols in the river in Delhi-NCR, Yamuna was choked with debris. The river water was clogged with plastic bags, flower petals and pooja material, besides metal structures

Delhi:
The Yamuna choked on debris and waste materials on Sunday, a day after idols from nearly 200 Durga Pujas pandals in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and surrounding areas made way to the designated ghats for immersions.

According to a revenue department official, though the government had helped identify seven designated ghats for immersions, it was the duty of the flood and irrigation department and the municipal corporations to help clean the river.

Raveendra Kumar, executive engineer at the department of irrigation and flood control, said that they had built enclosures on the banks of the river for the devotees to drop their insoluble wastes, and the waters had enclosures too, to avoid the flow of debris into the river. He added that during the immersions, they had JCBs on standby to help pull out the idols as when they were immersed.

The National Green Tribunal in 2015 had banned immersion of idols made from non-biodegradable material, such as quick-setting gypsum plaster, also known as Plaster of Paris, or plastic in the Yamuna. It had said that idol immersion should be done from a designated place so that the river doesn’t get polluted. The bench, in an earlier order, prohibited throwing of puja material from anywhere but the designated ghats.

However, many people do not dispose of insoluble materials before the immersion, and there is no real testing of the materials used to build the idols. “Compliance is very poor. I don’t think anybody has been fined for not using biodegradable materials since the order,” said CR Babu, an ecologist who is part of the seven member committee appointed by the NGT.

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Hindustan Times, 2 October, 2017, http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/after-durga-puja-immersion-in-delhi-this-is-what-yamuna-looks-like/story-fcVewnfENHCI4C8P9jVKQL.html


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